From watching my friends, I often think the hardest part of parenting must be keeping a straight face.

I do sports medicine for special needs children and I teach ballet to kids. I meet a lot of parents of all kinds. Some of the parents I meet are so wonderful, they make my heart swell up and I can hardly believe that they are real. Some parents don't love their kids.

Very valid point.

Wait, why the heck would you not take them to see Frozen? Lots of little boys enjoyed Frozen.

I think this post was intended to be depressing.

That is somewhat true - but there is also this weird thing when you have kids where YOUR kid is the cutest thing in the ENTIRE world and you think other people would appreciate knowing about it. Other's people kids? Not so cute. Sometimes it is real work to remember that YOUR kids are SOMEBODY ELSE'S kids to…

I teach a class on internet safety and privacy to my pupils sometimes, generally for classes age 11-13. Almost all the kids use Snapchat, and, without exception, there are rooms full of horrified faces when I tell them that the pictures do not, in fact, disappear forever. I dread to think what kind of stuff they're…

I think it's the sleep deprivation and suddenly being on-call 24/7. I never hit my kid, but there were a few times when it took genuine self-control that I didn't know I possessed. I understood how child-abuse happened in a way I never had. Honestly, it says a lot for the maternal instinct that babies survive.

Most people in nursing homes, parents or not, either don't get visitors or maybe at Christmas.

While this is clearly upsetting to some people here, I think it's important to see things like this.

You know what everybody hates? Self-obsessed parents. Even other self-obsessed parents hate them. So like, get the fuck over yourself.

She probably has brilliant moments, but never anywhere you can see them. After all, if she was more mature around you, you'd make her do more chores ;)

People like me? Please explain yourself.

"I've never been in a fight and had a hard time understanding why anyone could be physically violent but MY GOD there is some visceral human reaction to being hit in the face - you immediately want to hit back."

This is why when I say I want don't want kids because I don't like kids and someone responds "but it would be different if they were YOURS!!!" I refuse to believe them.

Get a grip. There's a difference between an emotionally and physically abusive mother who teaches her children to vandalize property and lie to the police and a parent who, in a moment of frustration, writes a Whisper about their annoying-ass kid.

they are heartbreaking. i agree that an internet outlet isn't the same as real support but i think even anonymous venting can help relieve the pressure and desperation some of these women must feel. and it's not like mothers will be feeling very comfortable about admitting these feelings any time soon. i'm sure many…

yeah it's a choice but it's not like you can take them back once they're born. i'm not saying they should say this to their kids but if anything, having an outlet for these feelings is probably therapeutic since it's not really something they can admit to anyone.

This is definitely not a universal truth at all by any means. Plenty of teens are assholes but lots of them are not. I don't have one personally but I work with them.

Please be joking.