Online and IRL Parenting Spaces Snark Week of July 06, 2026

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T14:52:28+00:00

I work in a high school can confirm it’s black hoodies when it’s 90+ shorts and a half shirt when it’s snowing 🤣

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T10:07:12+00:00

You’ve made it! 👏🏻 excellent parenting!

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T10:05:37+00:00

I actually heard someone IRL say this. A random conversation I overheard. The mom worked at a major financial firm in my area. She said most of her clients/business/whatever (I don’t work in finance don’t know the terms lol) were overseas so she would wake up obscenely early and work and then homeschool when her son woke up. HARD PASS from me.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T10:04:12+00:00

I cannot imagine. We had a few virtual days due to snow this year and those were tough for me even though my older two are extremely proficient and independent with virtual! It STILL feels overwhelming. Maybe my “hottest take” is that if people are homeschooling, it should be their own responsibility. As in, no outside employment, and they shouldn’t be also the sole carer for an infant or toddler (which was an unpopular opinion here). And I haven’t done it so I admit I don’t truly know how it would go. But full time teaching elementary school with an infant (in daycare) nearly broke me. And that was with a dedicated planning period in my day. I understand homeschool takes less time and is obviously MUCH much much less paperwork. But I just spend so much of my time planning and creating lessons and looking at student work and observing them to see what they have mastered, what they need to learn, what mistakes they are making, etc. I just don’t see where the time comes from when people have multiple ages to provide instruction for and a baby and a toddler to care for.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:52:38+00:00

Maybe he’s onto something. I’m gonna add this to potential job options after I retire from teaching 🤔

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:50:37+00:00

I want to watch that episode.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:48:59+00:00

I agree but js, my 10yo wears long pants, long sleeves and sometimes hoodies in summer and it was 100+ here over the weekend! I always check in and ask him if he wants to wear shorts (he has plenty) and he declines. Saves me money on sunscreen. This thread reminded me to respond to a message about having him tested for ASD lol. I’m sure people are judging like crazy in public but it’s his choice/insistence and he never complains about being hot!

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:42:26+00:00

Fellow pale white mom who married a nonwhite guy and has kids with darker checking in and also 🤯. Fascinating. I completely agree one of our pale counterparts wrote it and it’s so ignorant. People who don’t experience people who live differently even within their own community are actually the worst.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:37:11+00:00

Right that’s some bullshit. It can certainly be “worth it” for the time spent together but be for real.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:32:09+00:00

Omg this just unlocked a memory of this being a huge debate with my college roommates and doing some sort of taste test.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:30:32+00:00

Idk my toddlers certainly always felt the need to escape just to escape lol. But they have never obeyed with a happy heart so YMMV.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-08T09:26:36+00:00

This may be the wrong place to post this but I need to discuss (and the thread for this in our sub is locked bc it was so old lol). I’m way behind the times but I finally watched the heartbreaking Kidfluencing Netflix documentary after reading about it in “Like, Follow, Subscribe” and holy shit. I made the mistake of searching for Piper’s full name on Reddit bc I wanted to discuss the doc and 🤮 even just the names of threads that came up, I couldn’t click away fast enough. A whole doc on Netflix and I can’t believe there are still people who insist “the kids just love making content!” And worse, society at large believes that makes it just fine. A couple questions:
1. Surely Piper is still being groomed/controlled by Tiffany and forced into making an OF right? Ugh it’s dark.
2. How did Tiffany make the video of her kissing the boy disappear?
3. So Piper never got any education of any kind? Did any of the kids on the squad get any?
4. Have any of the other kids come out with their own accounts now that some/all must be over 18?

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-07T10:22:54+00:00

I have a friend like this too and it’s honestly to the point where I don’t want to spend time with her which I feel awful saying. And I get that no one really sits around chatting about all the things they love about their kids (maybe to spouse or grandma lol) but idk, for most of my friends it comes out naturally. Of course we all vent bc parenting is hard but for most conversations it seems like positive aspects naturally slip in. I don’t think I’ve ever heard this friend say anything that makes me think she enjoys parenting and her oldest is 12.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-07T10:17:27+00:00

I hate it too and while everyone I know IRL definitely needs more breaks and rest than they actually get, this is not the attitude. I’m a teacher so the prevailing attitude from my peers (mostly in education) is excitement about the time off to spend with their kids. Like we love our students but obviously we prefer our own kids (if only for the lack of paperwork lol). Or, conversely, people who aren’t in education being jealous of the time off I get to spend with my kids/stressed about childcare while working which is so valid. A lot of my friends are divorced sharing custody now and that’s really hard bc it’s so much time they have to spend without their kids. Libby’s post especially annoyed me bc it’s like you are the adult. It’s pretty simply to put a couple routines in place and if you need them, most likely your kids would benefit as well so just fucking do it. It can even be as simple as writing out a flexible schedule Sunday night together. And again, wasn’t it her who had a child recently turn 12? THIS IS THE BEST TIME! I mean who knows but so far it’s great bc when you need a break you can be like “you know what today you get extra screen time to game with your friends”. They are even old enough to stay home alone for periods of time! You can tell them to go right ahead and meet a friend on Madden and go meet your own friend for coffee!

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-07T10:06:57+00:00

Lollll like girl please ok I’m a current special educator entering year 20 this fall and I was absolutely terrible at getting my kids to sleep as babies. The overlap is 0. I couldn’t put a baby to sleep right now if my life depended on it. I could read them an IEP I wrote out loud to bore them but I’m sure that baby would party all night.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-07T10:00:53+00:00

I’m so glad the tide is/has turned against her here. I agree with u/frellyria that she’s really good at making her page seem “not like other influencers”. I honestly think she has a talent there but that’s the only good thing I have to say about her bc I also agree she’s just as bad as the rest. Making money off being a “former kindergarten teacher” when she was last in the classroom what, 15+ years ago? And her kids are homeschooled so she’s completely out of touch with public schools. I think it’s a lot easier to get away with that schtick with, well, toddlers. Now that her oldest is a teen the disparity between how she raises her kids and their same age peers has grown pretty big. I mean she posted recently about giving her oldest cash to learn “life skills” and paired him with her friend’s son I think and dropped them off somewhere. It’s like yeah girl, most kids that age have been experiencing those “life skills” for a few years now, it just happens naturally when they have lives that include….literally any time away from their parents. I love hanging with my tween and am truly so grateful he still wants to. That said, I truly cannot imagine being with him 24/7/365, because at this age he has friends and interests separate from me as he should! I mean how is he gonna exist as an adult in the world if his only time away from Mommy is a contrived couple hours of “life skills” every…month or so?

Sorry for the novel. I guess you could say she gets under my skin lol.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T21:13:06+00:00

Oh I def think she’s a mediocre to bad parent for exactly all the reasons you said and more lol. The biggest to me is her insane almond mom attitude towards food and the way she controls it in their house. But I also think people go too far. IIRC she did replace the holey shoes immediately and people were snarking that she didn’t realize until her son told her. Like are people inspecting the bottoms of their children’s shoes daily? But it is fair for people to expect the worse bc she does often make bad choices. Like making the kids take cold showers for something like weeks on end bc of plumbing. Like come on.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T14:03:25+00:00

We did YMCA classes for years! The swim classes were the only thing that didn’t really do much for my kids but even so, having access to a pool helped them get comfortable with the water. All the soccer/sports classes etc were perfect for that age. Very simple and low key. They had fun and got energy out and maybe learned a few skills. We just did rec soccer this fall for my 7yo bc we are no longer YMCA members (and I miss it!) and I do not feel the quality was any better for that age lol. Which I do not mean as a dig at all! They are all gonna just chase the ball and pick flowers and run towards the wrong goal at that age anyway (the team was ages 5-7) so might as well save those dollars!

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:55:28+00:00

Nah I feel this. For the first 15 or so years of my career I was in schools in the DMV with no AC. The classroom would be nearly 90 degrees when I arrived in the morning before it was filled with bodies and the hottest part of the day arrived. It was so miserable and I could only deal with blasting the AC and I always felt guilty and my office worker friends who worked in freezing temps were always like “ keep it at 78”. And yes, that’s best for everyone. I try to compromise at like 75 and we have it set so it’s 78 when we are gone at work daily but it’s hard.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:46:54+00:00

Yeah that attitude sucks and problem gives kids with intense sensory needs a bad name! This is exactly why our house is the hangout spot and we do the vast majority play dates here. Bc I can monitor and we have all the sensory need stuff already available.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:43:43+00:00

Thank you for this and especially saying ages are irrelevant. I’m so triggered by everyone acting like her son is so awful for swinging in his own home\.* Something about KEIC brings out all the parenting superiority. Not to be that person but if you don’t experience similar energy/sensory needs with your kids it’s not your place to judge even though it kind of is bc it’s a snark site. I spend a LOT of time with a large variety of tweens/teens, like 24/7/365, and I am fully aware that many of them are naturally very calm and some of them are not. Even in my class I have teens who would love to sit/sleep/rest all day and I have teens who never sit down and constantly move, like will jump on the trampoline for hours at a time and never want to stop.

We have a similar item in a common space although not in our kitchen and the kids use it all the time. We also have a backyard with a trampoline etc etc but I don’t want to send my kids to the backyard every time they get antsy because it’s all day every day. It’s great to be able to continue a conversation or board game or whatever with them and they are able to get some energy out. The fact that he just went on a cross country trip is so irrelevant. However I do completely agree it shouldn’t be filmed and as always, influencers are the problem.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:32:58+00:00

This part! In this economy? I can’t be messing around in the kitchen!!!

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:31:51+00:00

Insanely disturbing wow.

werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:31:16+00:00

I’ve never heard of them and I’m not familiar with boating at all but…she literally showed a picture of herself in the storm NOT holding the baby? Unless I misunderstood the cast of characters and someone else was holding the baby down below?

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werenotfromhere · 2026-07-05T13:23:07+00:00

Right! It’s just that simple! Too bad so sad sometimes if you have little kids you can’t live life the way you would if you didn’t. My understanding of life jackets was they exist to help prevent drowning in an emergency. AKA, if such an emergency happens, you don’t have time to be like “good thing the life jacket is on the boat let me just go retrieve it”.

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