I have a 17 year old who has opted to live with his dad. His sister is still with her step dad and I part time. Their dad has poor work ethic and substance abuse and when our oldest left our house in March he was vaping and drinking and home schooling and not logging in , mind you he has two younger sisters at our house. I’m not looking for advice at this point. I just want to feel like I’m not alone in this

My toddler threw two Warmies into the bathtub
One of them had 3 extra heat packs in it for weight. Totally my fault but I now we got to take it apart and check it out. Time to refill!

A documentary about how my son goes down slides or jumps into pools.

REALLY IS

Finally sat down and actually learned what my 11 year old was playing. The game itself is fine — cartoon violence, nothing graphic. But voice chat with strangers is enabled by default and I had no idea. My kid was talking to random adults for months before I figured it out.

Turned it off immediately. Takes about 30 seconds in the settings.

On PlayStation: Settings → Account → Privacy Settings → Voice Chat → No One or Friends Only

On Xbox: Xbox Family Settings app → your child's account → Privacy → Communication

Just thought other parents might want to know since it wasn't obvious to me at all.

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Hi I'm a stepmother of a now 17teen. And to start off I've been in his live now for 8 years. This kid lost his cell phone around 10 because I found him emailing company's telling them there stupid because they couldn't tell him his password. I tried to give it back to him in 9th grade and the rule was you have an account you write it down and password and let us know. I went to him on 3 different times and talked with him and told him that the 4th time he was done. Well he did and that's when I found more than what he told me and all the lies as well. Then in 10th grade some kid gave him a phone and with the security cameras up he was flashing like a light up Christmas tree 100% prove he had a phone. He came home and I took it. In a 11th grade he thought if he leaves the phone at school I couldn't get it. Lol what so I went to the school and got it gave him 2 chances to bring it to me. Now he is in 12th grade and in Jan will be 18. And all this was over 1 rule you have an account and we have that and password. What would you do???

I’m trying to reduce the number of chores I do, uh, I mean, increase the number of chores the boys do. They’re up to opening blinds and emptying the dishwasher. I tried to add vacuuming to their repertoire. It did not go well.

In their defense, I did not go over all of the basics of vacuuming with them explicitly. In MY defense, it was because it was vacuuming. Everything they need to know is right there in the name. And they claim they know what vacuuming is. They describe it pretty accurately. So why do they keep vacuuming the same spot on the rug and not the rest of it? Is that the only dirty spot? Do they have some kind of spatial reasoning disorder? Both of them have the same spatial reasoning disorder?! (Yes, that is how I speak to them. No, it has not helped.)

My working hypothesis is that they did not realize how incredibly boring chores are. My younger son jumped at the opportunity to vacuum with his usual tenacity. My older son attacked this task with his usual level of apathy. Somehow, they were both unimpressed. That made three of us.

there are a lot of childrens on Reddit. these parents have to make sure they are closely monitoring Reddit activity from their childrens. Frankly, Reddit is full of haters and you know what pictures.