Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics [footnote]No childless in the comments please, or else we’re telling Mom.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be looking for advice, sharing a fun experience, or just venting about how goddamn maddening this crazyass responsibility can be. This week’s topic: Independence Somewhat similar to last week’s thread about development, only with a … Continue reading Parental Guidance February 3, 2018: Independence

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics [footnote]Please do not post in these threads unless you’re personally raising some children, or we’re telling Mom[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be looking for advice, sharing a fun experience, or just venting about how goddamn maddening this crazyass responsibility can be. This week’s topic: Development Do you ever worry that … Continue reading Parental Guidance January 27, 2018: Development

Hello parents and parental adjacent people. You know the deal – each week Corn or I will post a discussion topic (unless someone else wants to, do let us know) and we will discuss. The topic is a only a conversation starter- do feel free to brag, complain, ask for advice, etc. as usual. This weeks topic:  Sickos. Cold and flu season is upon us here in North America. How do you generally handle kids illnesses? Do you puke once someone even looks a bit green? Do How do you deal with handling clean- up with your kids, then? Do … Continue reading Parental Guidance: Sickos

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics [footnote]Discussion in these threads is limited to parents only unless otherwise specified.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be looking for advice, sharing a fun experience, or just venting about how goddamn maddening this crazyass responsibility can be. This week’s topic: Sleep How much sleep do your kids get, on average? How … Continue reading Parental Guidance January 13, 2018: Sleep

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics[footnote]Discussion in these threads is open to parents only, unless otherwise specified.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be looking for advice, sharing a fun experience, or just venting about how goddamn maddening this crazyass responsibility can be. This week’s topic: Household chores What’s the division of labor like around your house, now … Continue reading Parental Guidance: Chores

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics[footnote]Please refrain from posting in this thread if you are not personally responsible for raising any children, but feel free to bring up anything we discuss here in the Open Threads.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be looking for advice, sharing a fun experience, or just venting about how goddamn maddening this … Continue reading Parental Guidance: Your Family Newsletter

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics [footnote]As always, we ask that you refrain from posting in this thread if you are not personally responsible for raising any children. We encourage all non-parents to confine any thoughts pertaining these discussions to the Open Threads. Thank you for your attention to these guidelines.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be … Continue reading Parental Guidance December 9, 2017: Put the X Back in Xmas

Hello and welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s Weekly thread for parents, prospective parents, caregivers and other lunatics [footnote]As always, we ask that you refrain from posting in this thread if you are not personally responsible for raising any children. We encourage all non-parents to confine any thoughts pertaining these discussions to the Open Threads. Thank you for your attention to these guidelines.[/footnote] who think they have what it takes to raise some humans. Each week I, Corn, and/or Miss Rim will put up a thread with a discussion prompt and open the floor to all parents who may be … Continue reading Parental Guidance December 2, 2017: Ghosts Of Christmas Past

Hello moms, dads and all other child-raisers! Welcome to Parental Guidance, The Avocado’s weekly discussion thread for parents, caregivers, and those of us with decidedly too much responsibility [footnote]Please refrain from posting in this thread if you are NOT personally raising any children, unless specifically authorized.[/footnote]. Each week I, Corn, or Miss Rim will suggest a particular topic to kick things off, but please do bring up any other concerns or questions, and good old-fashioned grievances that may be on your mind. This week’s topic: Hair This week’s topic was suggested by PaNoire, inspired by this Nathan Rabin blog post. … Continue reading Parental Guidance November 18, 2017 – Hair

Hello, and welcome to the weekly parenting thread! This is open to parents, caregivers, and educators. Each Saturday, Corn or Miss Rim will post a thread. We’ll typically have a topic that serves as a conversation starter,  but anything parental or parental adjacent is a-OK. Feel free to complain, ask for advice, share brag, and complain some more. This week’s topic – Miscellaneous This is the first PG on the new and improved Avocado, so I thought it might be a good idea to do a general thing.  Are you a parent, caregiver, or educator, or some combination thereof?  Do … Continue reading Parental Guidance November 11, 2017 – Misc.

Kids these days! I’m telling ya.       Continue reading Parental Guidance: Kids these days! Harrumph!

As always, if you aren’t actively raising a kid, please stay in lurk only mode. So, parents, good week? My wife’s sister had a baby two nights ago and my brother’s wife is in labor as we speak. Lots of baby news around my house. All it’s making me want to do is go out on vacation. For this week’s topic, let’s hear about some of your best or worst family vacation stories. Disney? Camping? Europe? What ya got? Any tips or tricks to successful vacations with kids? Continue reading Parenting Thread 3: With a Vengeance

If you aren’t raising a child in some regular capacity, we are going to ask you to lurk only unless explicitly asked. What up fellow parents!Sorry this is late-ish but I know we talked a little about moving it to Monday. Open to suggestions. And for the prompt this week: Other Parents! Just the worst, right? But for real, how have your experiences been with giving or taking advice from other parents? I don’t have much more to add because I just spent all damn day in traffic. Plus, I am sure we end up talking about random stuff anyway. So let’s … Continue reading Parenting Thread 2: Parent Harder