I see a lot of posts here about cutting screen time and limiting gaming and honestly I think we're being way too paranoid as a generation. My boys (10 and 14) play for like 2 hours after school most days and they're fine - good grades, active in sports, have friends. Video games actually helped my y...

This has been eating at me for weeks ngl. My son used to be excited about his weekends with me but lately he's been making excuses or just sitting on his phone the whole time. I asked him what's up and he said "your apartment is boring and I don't have my friends there." I get it - he's 12, he's g...

That's it. That's the post. He was watching me fix his toy and just went "You're really good at fixing things, dad." Made my whole week.

I see a lot of people on here talking about switching to private school or homeschooling and I get it, but I just gotta say our district is legitimately good. We're in Madison and honestly the teachers care, the kids are thriving academically, there's actual arts programs, sports, everything. I know...

Not the gas smiles, not the random twitches—actual genuine baby smiles that happened when we were talking to him. I know it sounds dumb but I literally felt something shift in my chest. My wife cried. We're so in love. Just wanted to share that somewhere because my coworkers were NOT interested in h...

Been playing soccer for the season and hasn't scored yet. Today he finally got one. I lost it. Probably embarrassed him in front of his whole team but I don't even care lol. Been a rough few months with work stress and divorce stuff, so seeing him happy and proud of himself just hit different today....

Looking to invest in a good pair of boots. Not the fashionable garbage that falls apart in a season, I'm talking real boots for real work. My old pair lasted 15 years before I finally had to retire them. I want something I can pass down or at least feel like I got my money's worth from. What are you...

I've been trying to make this work for 6 months and I'm losing it. My company let me go full remote after my second kid was born, which sounds amazing on paper. But my 3-year-old daughter doesn't understand why daddy is "right there" but can't play with her. She interrupts every single call, and my ...

My daughter is 8 weeks old and I'm struggling bad. Sleep deprivation is part of it, but it's more than that. I feel flat. Nothing is enjoyable—not even holding her sometimes, which makes me feel like a monster. My wife is dealing with her own stuff and I don't want to burden her. I haven't told anyo...

I've been defensive about my temper for years. My therapist gently suggested I look into some anger management classes and honestly I was resistant. But after I yelled at my 3yo for asking me a question the wrong way, I realized I'm the problem. There's a group that meets Tuesday nights at the commu...

My wife is exclusively pumping because feeding never clicked for us (no judgment intended but we just couldn't get there) and holy shit the time commitment. She's pumping 8 times a day, that's 8 times of setting up, cleaning, storing, tracking supply. It's taking over our lives. Meanwhile I feel use...

So my 10yo's 5th grade teacher assigned a project where kids have to create an Instagram account and post daily updates. DAILY. An Instagram account. For 10 year olds. I'm trying not to be the parent who argues with teachers but this feels absolutely backwards. My kid isn't even supposed to have soc...

Never played organized baseball but my son is turning 5 and wants to do T-ball. League is looking for parent volunteer coaches. Part of me thinks it'd be fun and a good bonding thing, but also I have no idea what I'm doing and I'm worried about looking like an idiot in front of a bunch of 5-year-old...

Just spent $400 on supplies to build what I thought would be a simple playset extension. Materials have gotten absolutely ridiculous. Is it just me or is anyone else's budget getting absolutely demolished by this stuff? Actually thinking about switching to more hiking/biking focused weekends just b...

Okay, real talk. Sometimes after a particularly brutal day with work and kids, I'll just let them eat a bowl of cereal for dinner instead of actually cooking something. My wife gives me this look like I'm poisoning them but like... cereal has milk, right? That's calcium. I'm not doing it every night...