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The so-called butter sleep hack reportedly began with U.S. parents before making its way to the UK and New Zealand.
Some argue that parents have always figured out how to entertain kids without screens, while others point out the struggles of modern life.
🫠 “Me just realizing the room I was told to pump in has a camera.”
The family bed debate is just one piece of a much larger conversation about how families sleep best—and, more importantly, what research actually says about co-sleeping.
“I pay my daughter to take naps. Not the baby, the toddler. And before you judge me, this s**t works.”
High fives? Good touch. Hugs? Good touch. Mouth? Bad touch.
The couple, en route to Michigan for a work trip, had just settled in when Sarah noticed a suspicious brown spot creeping up Dawson’s clothing.
"You love me?!" she asks, eyes wide with disbelief.
The lesson goes far beyond dating.
It all started when Bennett, a toddler from Moore, Oklahoma, got his hands on an old cell phone.
"I’m not really sure how people go about handling the transition from one to two kids. It’s really hard in so many different ways."
“I have the next five hours to myself.”
Every time they left a doctor’s appointment, he would play a game with the car, slowly pulling forward and reversing while she tried to get in.
Infertility grief is complex, and this viral story reveals why pregnancy announcements require more compassion.
"Whenever anyone asks, ‘Do you want more kids? Do you ever think you’ll have more?’ I’m just like… would you, like, start over?"
"You need to take that dress back from that girl because my daughter wanted that dress."
"The hardest thing about parenting in 2025 is that the parenting part isn’t really that hard. It’s everything else."
It wasn’t just the pose that was eerily similar—Amelia was wearing the exact same white dress her mom had worn 25 years earlier.
“We’ve been through it three times together, and everything on this list made me feel so loved.”
He turned his speech into an inside joke that just so happened to have major parenting implications.
