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"Whenever anyone asks, ‘Do you want more kids? Do you ever think you’ll have more?’ I’m just like… would you, like, start over?"
It all started when Bennett, a toddler from Moore, Oklahoma, got his hands on an old cell phone.
"I’m not really sure how people go about handling the transition from one to two kids. It’s really hard in so many different ways."
"You need to take that dress back from that girl because my daughter wanted that dress."
“I have the next five hours to myself.”
"The hardest thing about parenting in 2025 is that the parenting part isn’t really that hard. It’s everything else."
It wasn’t just the pose that was eerily similar—Amelia was wearing the exact same white dress her mom had worn 25 years earlier.
“We’ve been through it three times together, and everything on this list made me feel so loved.”
“I pay my daughter to take naps. Not the baby, the toddler. And before you judge me, this s**t works.”
He turned his speech into an inside joke that just so happened to have major parenting implications.
The vendor enthusiastically takes over, carefully arranging lemons around the baby, directing poses, and making sure the photos come out just right.
In the now-viral image, Bailey sits holding her newborn, her hair in a messy bun, wearing a hoodie, sporting a look of pure postpartum bewilderment.
The moment in the parking lot was more than a sweet viral moment, it was one mom seeing her past in someone else’s present.
“Let’s normalize having birthday celebrations within our budget instead of passing the cost onto other parents..."
“I never ever ever thought I’d see the day where I got to call him into the bathroom after finding out the test was, finally, positive 🥺 … A dream come true."
“You start to bond on this different level… like you just get each other.”
“Joy and fear consumed that man QUICKLY.”
What can today’s parents learn from a couple who raised an entire generation—without the conveniences (or pressures) of modern parenting?
