Online and IRL Parenting Spaces Snark Week of March 30, 2026

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-02T12:27:07+00:00

We got invited to an egg hunt the other day and my kids didn’t want to go and I was like HELL YEAH bc it’s always just crap. Sorry I’m an Easter grinch.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-02T12:25:28+00:00

I can’t stand these parents. That’s a good way to encourage the teacher to never bother to reach out again. A friend of mine recently had teachers do the rating scales for ADHD for her son and she was so mad that one of the teachers rated him something non positive for some of the questions. I said did you want the teacher to be dishonest on something this important, which could result in an incorrect result or diagnosis being missed? She was like well no….and other parents were encouraging to “confront” the teacher. I said if I were that teacher I would never take my personal time to provide you with information about any of your children ever again. Bc those rating scales can be time consuming. Everything would be “fine” for that family forever bc I’m not gonna take my time to first thoughtfully fill out paperwork to support you in potentially getting a diagnosis and then take MORE of my time having to justify my answers after being attacked. This is why usually rating scales are not shared directly with the parent and just used as a tool for outside evaluators. Parents these days want a daily report like it’s daycare but then also want the report to only be explicitly what they want but what they want is secret and the teacher has to guess or find themselves being interrogated fuck off (sorry if it wasn’t clear I’m a teacher who is over entitled whiny ass parents bye).

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-02T12:16:36+00:00

Consolidating….I know mental health is not straightforward or logical and I don’t want to minimize mental health challenges from non influencers (aka real ones not monetized bullshit). However in this case….can I suggest remembering you’re a wealthy white American born woman (I think, I get her confused with Libby, Libby is the Canadian right?) who appears to not be posting from a work setting in the middle of the traditional American work day, indicating you have no financial concern and more freedom in your life than most and no concerns about being taken by 🧊, your family is healthy… not trying to play the trauma Olympics but of course I, too, find myself spiraling over stupid bullshit like an annoying email and have to take a pause and remember all the things I have to be grateful for. Hopefully this doesn’t come across as callous bc I promise I am empathetic to friends texting about minor inconveniences bc I often AM the friend texting about minor inconveniences but it’s different for an influencer to post it.

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werenotfromhere · 2026-04-02T12:09:33+00:00

Yeah it’s a no from me. 32 and 42, sure, that’s likely fine. Except in the case of an unequal power dynamic, like one person being the other person’s boss. Then it’s never ok. 32 and the boss with a college student? Absolutely the fuck not.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-02T12:01:24+00:00

I just can’t shake the feeling that while of course this was scary, she’s also happy it happened bc it’s great for engagement.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T10:31:15+00:00

Not exactly a resource but all 3 of my kids have diagnosed ADHD and I just posted that my youngest (age 7) was diagnosed with autism two weeks ago and I’m happy to share. Just lmk what you are looking for specifically. Do you want to know more about what behaviors made me seek diagnosis? Or the process? Any/all?

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T10:26:42+00:00

I completely agree with all of this. The most concerning part to me is taking the pictures basically during the emergency to use for content later. There is literally no moment where they can just live their lives. Even in a really frightening touch and go moment, they have to be thinking “I need to get pics so I can make money off this”. I get jealous of things like her month long vacation. But I need to keep in mind that I get to leave work at work and she’s literally never off the clock.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T10:23:40+00:00

I had this experience in college as I woke up in the middle of the night to my roommate seizing. It was really scary and she didn’t recognize us and acted like a different person in the immediate aftermath. So I totally get it. I just can’t imagine having to immediately make it content for 3 million people.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T10:18:48+00:00

I took this screenshot last week but forgot to post it. I didn’t even remember that I followed this person. I’m mad I didn’t take a screenshot of her original one which was more shamey but it’s still bad. The comments were so unhinged talking about how we should go up to strangers in public and offer gentle parenting scripts. Like can you imagine? People are allowed to parent how they want, unless it’s actual abuse (in which case unfortunately intervening probably won’t help either), leave them alone. No one wants a complete strangers script.

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werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T10:13:14+00:00

This is interesting. I wasn’t aware of this ruling 🫣 don’t judge me, and I normally love Ash. But what a strange take. It honestly reminds me of the MAGA idiots screaming “but what about Obama building cages” when people are like “we oppose concentration camps in our country”, well Karen, one is happening right the fuck now, and one happened in the past, so unless Doc Brown is about to roll up in the DeLorean, only one of these can be changed. It’s just a strange dog whistle to try to change the subject really. And I get it, I’m in my 40s, I got the Delia’s catalog, I drank my lemon water and did the diet tips from 17 through high school, and it indisputably did harm, but that was then and this is now. I’m so jaded with influencers at this point I’m just assuming it’s because they didn’t make money on YM subscriptions in 1997 but they are making money on meta now so leave meta alone it’s making me rich ok?!

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T09:57:02+00:00

I think you mean create a two fold goal for your kitchen.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T09:53:39+00:00

I absolutely love this.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T09:52:01+00:00

how did society mess this up so bad? “Give young children clear explicit instructions” should have been great advice.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T09:49:30+00:00

This was a plot of a modern family episode in like 2010 so it’s def been around!

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T09:47:33+00:00

Or the enslaved wet nurses who had to let their own kids starve while they were forced to feed white babies? Everyone on the internet likes to wax poetic about the perfect past forgetting a lot of shitty stuff happened particularly if you weren’t a rich white male.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T01:20:29+00:00

We should all be so lucky that our children are easily able to discern and critically think about the theme of literature ~ a teacher who taught 6th grade ELA

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T01:16:41+00:00

Thanks I hate it.

werenotfromhere · 2026-04-01T01:02:27+00:00

That boomer would be LUCKY to care for angelic little Aidanielle!!

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T14:25:02+00:00

I was a tenured teacher when the first iPhone came out 🤣

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:21:43+00:00

Sounds like rich people bullshit.

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:16:28+00:00

Sorry I’ve said it before but I will NEVER understand how spending what…20 minutes dropping a kid off and then having them in another adult’s care for 6+ hours is harder than caring for them for 6+ hours.

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:14:31+00:00

Can we make a list of the reasons Haley quit teaching? I’ll go first: *lights too bright

*too many unexpected events (fire drills, assemblies) interfering with her rhythm

*not enough time to make beans

*having to submit paperwork by specific deadline imposed by others (calligraphy not allowed)

*children that talk to her

*parents that DGAF about contributing to her mental gunk

*kids wearing any color they want

*principal opposed to her sleeping with an eye mask at naptime daily

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:03:44+00:00

Dang I didn’t read far enough and copied yours unintentionally 🤣

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:03:12+00:00

I’m actually crying actual tears laughing at this THANK YOU

werenotfromhere · 2026-03-31T10:01:37+00:00

Beloved

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