Talk to your kids about intrusive thoughts. They’re more common than you may realize, and they can be disturbing and scary. Kids don’t know what they are, and they aren’t likely to share they are having them. I cannot even begin to tell you the relief upon learning what they are-
My daughter (16) got a flat at work yesterday. Within the hour her boyfriend had put her spare on. She’s at work right now and I looked out the window and saw him putting a tire on. He went and bought one for her and she has no idea 😭 I love him so much.
During my divorce, a “really good” friend set up a date with my husband. I got upset, and SHE got angry. “You can’t have everything!” 🤯 I’d literally just lost everything. She said, “I could have had him at any time.” I said, “I imagine so. Turns out he’s not so picky”
Tell me if I’m overreacting. My 11 year old accidentally knocked a cup over in class a couple of days ago, and his teacher immediately snapped, “Normal kids don’t do stuff like that!!”
In the waiting room with my son, and the CUTEST little girl is chatting away. I’m talking so cute it puts tears in your eyes. Everyone is smiling. They go to leave, and I hear her mom spit, “Would you just STOP talking? You never shut up”
7 yo came inside upset bc she said the neighbor kids were pretending to put snakes in her hair. I was just putting her hair up for soccer…and a baby snake fell out 😟
She then got angry because that was insulting?So…I told her fine and that they were perfect for one another. She is a therapist. She began trying to diagnose me. Apparently caring that my friend wanted to date my soon to be ex husband was suggestive of bipolar disorder. Lol.
Anyway, I’m in the process of trying to get him switched to another class bc this was one of several snarks she’s given him so far and school JUST began. He said he can tell he just annoys her.
This is his science class, and he had a stinker last year as well. Prior to this, Science was his favorite subject. He said he’s starting to hate it, and that’s just not okay 😞
And discovering that you aren’t just going crazy. If someone had told me as a child, it would have been a game changer. They can feel like torment at times, so just please if you suspect your child may be having them- normalize it (and get help if needed) so they can breathe
Once upon a time, I was dumb. Like super dumb. I was 19, and I agreed to let a strange man pick me up for a date. He’d told me he was in his late 20’s, but I knew immediately when I saw him that he’d very much lied. Did I leave? Nope, of course not, bc I was dumb.
He is ALWAYS doing whatever he can to make her life easier and better. At 16, he’s already a better man than half the men I know. I hope they stay together forever lol
Just got a call from the school saying that my 7 yo has missed too much school and they won’t accept parent notes anymore. I guess I should have just sent her with the flu. It’s ridiculous.
My daughter gives one of her friends a ride home from school everyday. Today he made a diet joke and so she just left him there to teach him a lesson 💀
@raeljames
Scary too :/ She seems to have done a complete mental reboot in her life and doing good work in her community and things but…I don’t think I could ever fully trust that this side isn’t still in there lurking
@CarissasNewLife
Omg I know! After I had Charli, I answered in the questionnaire that I’d had ideation within the past 2 weeks. The nurse came in and told me I’d answered it wrong and to redo it. I was like oh…okay then. Lol
@bunniferated
My mom still tells the story of being told to “SHHH!” with a scowl by my grandpa’s secretary when she was little. She said from that day on she always felt ashamed if she was chatty in public 🥺
Was watching my grandson yesterday and he wouldn’t stop crying. It occurred to me that he’s used to being comforted in Spanish, so in desperation I started sweetly saying all of the random words I know and it actually worked for a second. “Pants…trash can…backpack..dog, etc” 😆
MAJOR TW: miscarriage
I had 3 losses a couple of years ago. I did them all at home on my own. What I need people to understand, is that it doesn’t happen all at once. It builds and builds and you lose clumps upon clumps.
He screams but nobody but me can hear him, and with white knuckles he hauls out of there so fast without a single word until we pull in front of my house. He starts laughing then and says, “What the <fork> was that? You got some kind of guardian angel or something” 🤣😭😭😭
Instead, I hopped in his car and let him take me wherever he wanted. This seems like a good time to remind you that this was pre everyone having cell phone days. Anyway, so first he drove to the liquor store and bought a bunch of that. Then he just kept driving…
About an hour later, he turned onto a random dirt path until we arrived at our destination; the middle of nowhere next to a frog pond. If you have never been to one of these, then you probably don’t know how loud they are. It’s a symphony of croaking frogs and it’s insanely LOUD.
I respond with nervous laughter, and then he says, “you know that if you screamed right now nobody would hear you, right?” Before I could test this theory, a blinding light flashes into the car and then disappears.
My son’s having a rough time right now, and it’s coming out a bit at school. One of his teachers told him today that she wants him to start chewing gum in class to see if it helps him stay focused. She said she‘s willing to bend the rules if it helps him.
After awhile, he laughs and asks me if I’ve ever noticed that in serial killer movies that it’s always the couple in the woods making out that gets killed first; specifically the shirtless female he says.
@sewistwrites
Was thinking about this last night while trying to figure out why I always get so sad after coming home from the hospital after giving birth. I think the closest we come to that care is while the L&D nurses care for us after delivery
Him, just now: What I hate, is that teachers like this always only like the girls with the white Air Force ones, Starbucks in their hands, and are like copy/pasted versions of each other 🤣 Somehow I completely get this
A little boy wrote Harper (7) a card telling her to never be absent again or he’ll rage, and asking her if she could come to his house. She got real quiet and said, “This is suspicious…there are lovebirds on the front. I’m telling him NO”
My friend’s husband, who is also the brother of one of my other friends, went for a hike in the Rocky Mountains on Wednesday and hasn’t been seen since. They’ve had a search and rescue crew searching for him since Thursday. If you could pray?
Someone I loved had been molested and the guy got away with it completely. Somehow I knew that was the house we’d just gone to. I know this is strange, but I’ve never felt more proud and safe in my entire life. Guess I like a lil vigilante action
When I was little, I was in the car with my dad one day. Suddenly, he stopped the car in front of a house and said, “I’ll be right back.” He knocked on the door, the guy answered, my dad knocked him out, got back in the car, and we went home. 1/2
Here I am. 18 years old and terrified. How will I do this? What will become of this sweet baby? The odds are stacked against us.
But God.
This boy is now a man. A kind man. A smart man. A GOOD man.
He graduates with honors from UNT in May.
We stuck it to the odds, baby ❤️
I’ve been having a REALLY tough time with my 6 and 4 yo old lately, and my 12 yo son caught me breaking down today. He told me that I needed a hug, to go lay down and rest, and that he’d go talk to them.
Some of these clumps are so large that you think you’ve delivered the baby. As this continues, you begin to feel weak and disoriented. It is traumatizing and you are not in your right mind. It’s a literal slow death of your child; at least that’s how it feels.
@Iheartrescuedog
I’m just trying to tell myself that this was one bad moment and maybe she’s been apologizing for it ever since. That’s probably not the truth, but gosh I hope so
I used to be ON FIRE for Jesus. Like filled to the brim, bursting with joy for Him. Of all the things I grieve, BY FAR this is what I miss most. Someone tell me it’s not over and that I’ll walk in that again. I know He’s still there, but I miss Him so much.
We prayed over each one of them and know they are with Jesus and that will always have to be enough.
I also need you to know that I’m pro life. What is being done to this woman is NOT pro life. It’s cruel.
This is heartbreaking. A woman in Warren, Ohio, has been charged with abuse of a corpse for trying to plunge a toilet after having a miscarriage at 22 weeks while using the restroom.
@phantomleaf1
I mean she just began driving and it happened as she was pulling up to work. He had it done before she even had the chance. Just appreciate this act of kindness. No need to look for ways to make it a negative lol
My son woke and did all of his laundry in the middle of the night; including his school uniforms. I woke him up for school and he, in all of his audacity asked, “You dried my clothes, right?!” The clothes that I had no idea were in the wash. Kids literally think we’re psychic
Of course the baby has already died, but this is the moment any ounce of denial you’ve held on to dies as well. My plan had been to bury my child. I hadn’t counted on the endless “is this it??” and I couldn’t bring myself to scoop bits of my children out of the toilet.
THERE IS NO GOOD OUTCOME. The fact that this is happening over a toilet is enough to break you by itself. It feels wrong. It feels like you are desecrating your own child.
@stillinatl
My grandpa was like that, and I felt that even as a naturally quiet child. His favorite saying was, “There’s nothing worse than a happy child.” It was said in a joking manner, but there was definite truth to it lol
I know it’s a small gesture, but if you could have seen how he was glowing when he told me about it. Having a teacher see you and care is everything ❤️
This thought was too much and we began praying that the Lord would allow the toilet to just flush. Thankfully He answered our prayers. There was no good solution here is what I need you to understand. You are in a state of mental and physical shock. You are in the midst of trauma
I cannot even begin to explain the shame that comes from this. I’m shaking and crying with it even now as I write this. I wish I’d been strong enough to bury my babies. I know in the moment it was impossible, but that doesn’t matter.
I had a friend in college who’d recently fled an abusive marriage from Romania. Everything that she said and did was so different. When she was having a particularly bad day, she would call and say, “I’m coming over to be sad.” She’d literally come over and we’d sit in silence
My husband is very private so I try and respect that by never posting about certain things, but if something doesn’t give really soon I’m about to be 8 months pregnant, forced to sell our home, and God knows what from there.I’m scared. Very scared. If y’all could just please pray
You want to hold your child. You want it to end. You want to crawl into that toilet yourself and drown it all away. I always thought I’d bury my baby. Until I was there and it wasn’t what I’d imagined, I thought it would be more simple.
I’ve talked a bit about it before, but my dad was in prison for a good majority of my life. My prayer was always that he would “finish well,” and that my babies would know him. Here he is, sober and free, playing with my sweet Annabelle on Easter. This is a picture of redemption
My sweet boy just said, “Mama, I don’t understand why people would make fun of someone with a disability. Can you imagine how strong they have to be to learn how to live differently? They’re way stronger than we are” 🥺
My toilet was actually broken with one of them and I didn’t remember that until after I’d stumbled into the bathroom; blood pouring out of my body. I frantically called my husband into the room wailing, “What if this was it? I can’t dig through all of this, I can’t do it!!”
Y’all, this baby has no use for english. I put on this YouTube channel for babies that’s all in Spanish and it was like magic. If I try to interfere with my janky english he is NOT having it 🤣 I love it so much
Omg so at one point I was sweetly saying, “Un poquito de basura” thinking I was saying “The little trash can” which is bad enough, but I looked it up and I guess I was just saying, “a little bit of trash” to him. Sooo sweetly 🤣🤦♀️ Basura is a pretty word though. I like it Lmbo
He lovingly reassured me that it was up to me, but that he didn’t think either one of us would survive sorting through it all trying to find our baby. But then the question became, “If the toilet won’t flush, what do I do?!”
@lancejorton
Haha I was laughing as I wrote it. It’s just so wild. This wasn’t the first time she tried to use her degree to gaslight me but this was next level
I identified with the word “whore” for a great deal of my life. One night, while trying to convince Jesus how unredeemable I was, He chose not to argue who I was, but instead to reveal to me how deep His love is for “the whore.”
The absolute worst award given to kids, hands down, is the “perfect attendance award.” Congrats kid, your parents sent you to school sick and ya got everyone else sick too. Here’s your certificate! 🙃