Parenting Struggles and Personal Safety Mishaps

Unfortunately our teenage son smoked some no no stuff a few days ago, so we’ve been checking his room (I did too when I was young, so not that upset). We found this in his garbage a few hours ago. It ...

Its summer camp and several times a week they pile the kids onto a bus to go swimming at a local pool. To be able to swim in the main pool the kids have to take a swimming test. If they pass they get ...

When my son was maybe four or five years old, he was particularly fussy in the bath one day, saying that the shampoo hurt his eyes. Baby shampoo is completely neutral for the eyes, so I knew he was ju...

I have no clue. Does anyone know why people do that? Calling the person you're having sex with 'mommy' or 'daddy' ? Is it because of the inherent taboo from incest? Is it something else?

To all those undecided on whether to keep a surprise pregnancy or not, please let me be your cautionary tale. When I found out I was pregnant (about 3 months ago) I was almost excited. I thought I w...

Whenever I see people from my school they always are talking about weed or smoking it and either talking about cracking? Meanwhile I haven’t even snuck out of my house, stolen anything, and I even fee...

I saw a YouTube short where a lady with ALS let her friends and family taste her very disgusting liquid ALS medicine and it made me think. I cant imagine dipping your tongue in most medications would ...

My Dad was super frugal growing up, which is fair enough — it helped him and my mum buy a house in a nice area that's now worth 3x what they paid for it. They couldn't have done it any other way, and ...

My parents are from Japan, but I was born and raised in the US. They immigrated here as adults understanding textbook English taught by a non-native speaker, and there were many things about American ...

Earlier, my teacher asked us who's the atheist here (and I was the only one who raised my hand). Then my teacher asked me, why I dont believe in god, I told her cuz i believe it's just a coping mechan...

My 10 year old decided she wanted to make her own sourdough starter. She watched several videos on how to do it and made it 13 days ago. It went through the process of bacteria rising then went dorman...

This happened a few years ago - I was in 11th grade. The final assignment for my parenting class was to take home the “realcare baby” (a robotic infant simulator) for a few days. Like a real baby, it ...

I have been a porn connoisseur for many decades, since before the internet. We used to get porn from the local liquor store if you lived in bigger suburbs. As time went in on porn went almost complete...

My mom got arrested for domestic violence against an 8 year old yesterday After years of cutting her off from my life due to the heinous shit she would do to me and my siblings, I finally let her ba...

I’m just curious if anyone else’s parents don’t drink water? Maybe cause in high school the Nalgene bottles were “trending”? At the time and we all drank water throughout the day..? Personally, I cr...

i have always struggled with back pain due to poor posture but for the past year it got significantly worse and started having sciatica and leg pain also, specially some days but i did not know why. ...

​ A couple of years ago, I was hooking up with this extremely kinky girl who loved some rough sex and hearing slurs. It felt primal and I had never felt like that before. She had a preferenc...