This is how easy it is for kids to break social media age rules
Australian children are easily circumventing inadequate and poorly enforced social media age rules, despite platforms demonstrating a growing “capability” to detect younger users.
Parenting
‘We’re busting a gut at school pick up but some mums take it too far’
“Geez ladies, relax! Way to make us look bad.”
Temu’s toy fail is so rogue, it will leave you feeling… puzzled
“Finally, a puzzle that matches my eighth grade geometry test answers.”
Three days before the party, a text of demands was sent to guests
“We have four strict rules we would want parents to follow for our three year old’s birthday .”
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“Criticising people who are just excited to know if they’re having a son or a daughter seems, honestly, like an unnecessary killjoy.”
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“Her shape was described in an insulting way, and there was a comment on how much she eats.”
‘Parenting isn’t a performance but social media makes it feel like one’
COMMENT: “A mum potentially poisoning her child for likes is a gut-wrenching betrayal of everything motherhood stands for.”
Boomer grandma takes to ‘the TikTok’ to whine about babysitting rules
“POV: Me reading the exhaustive instructions my daughter left me,” the clip begins.
‘ I can’t believe there’s so many of you out there biting your kids’
“Today I took him to playgroup and there were three victims,” Adelaide mum Matilda said when asking for toddler biting advice – not emotionally prepared for the answers she received.
The unconventional playground item you need in your nappy bag
“We wondered why we all don’t already know this.”
Mum unplugs baby’s NICU monitor to get nurses’ attention for a sandwich
“I was told if I needed something to unplug that, so that’s what I’m doing.”
If you ‘spank’ your kids, you’re parenting wrong and I know why
“Go ahead – mock ‘gentle parenting’ and call this ‘discipline’, but if you hit a child, you’ve simply lost your sh*t.” Note: sensitive topics
‘Just don’t go out to eat if you hate kids’: Mum responds to ‘nasty’ man
“I’m not one of those parents that’s gonna let my kids sit there and scream and throw a fit.”
The 13yo neighbour saved our baby’s life, but it cost us
“I cannot believe he is doing this. I’m disgusted.”
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