I’ve let my kids stay up late the last two nights so we could play board games. On Saturday we played Scrabble until it was an hour past their bedtime and then I decided that we’d have ice cream and watch TV for a while. They were thrilled. This time I spent with my kids wasn’t a “sacrifice” or a burden I heroically shouldered for their sake. I like hanging out with them. They’re smart and funny and fun to be around. Sure they can be annoying sometimes, but anyone can be annoying. I’ve annoyed countless people in my day. Including my kids.
If you hate being a parent and actively resent your children, it’s either because you categorically refuse to get out of your own head and put in the minimal effort it requires to develop a real relationship with them, or it’s because you’ve done a really crappy job raising them so now they’re hard to be around. Either way, it’s a you problem. It’s your fault. Not theirs. It’s your responsibility, then, to pretend you don’t hate it.
Yes, pretend. Yes, suppress your true feelings. Yes, put on an act. Maintain the facade for your kids, because it’s deeply scarring and unfair to saddle them with your personal issues. And maintain the facade for the public, because frankly we don’t want to have to deal with your narcissistic nonsense either. Your “true self” is unsightly and off putting, and you shouldn’t force anyone to bear witness to it.
So fake it til you make it. Act like the kind of parent you should be, until you actually become that parent. Shoulder the burden of your own narcissism silently and with dignity. If you do that, after a while, and by definition, you will no longer be a narcissist. One day you’ll look up and realize that you’re actually not faking it anymore. You really do enjoy giving your time and yourself to those you love.
At least that’s how it often works. I don’t know if it will for you or not. But either way, whatever you do, don’t take your failures out on your children.
As a nurse, I’ve been around thousands of psychotic people and none of them would have had the mental capacity to carry out one murder like this, much less 3. Think about what happened in those final moments.
Lindsay Clancy calmly wrapped her rubber exercise band around 8 month old Callan’s chubby neck as her two other children looked on.
As she pulled the band tighter and tighter, he couldn’t understand what was happening. For about 15 seconds, the pain was localized to his neck as his airway was crushed and his skin painfully pinched. 15 seconds later, his little lungs felt intense burning due to the build up of carbon dioxide. As he gasped for air and struggled to escape, the blood trapped in his skull started pounding, causing excruciating pressure and his eyes began to bulge. She continued to squeeze while he endured unimaginable pain and terror until he finally lost consciousness after 3 tortured minutes. Once he finally stopped fighting, his mother kept the pressure on his neck for 2-3 more minutes until she thought she’d finished the job. One body down in 6 minutes.
Little Dawson, 3, must’ve sensed what was about to happen to him because he ran to his father’s office, likely seeking a safe space. That’s where Lindsay caught him and wrapped an exercise band around his neck. A three year old is stronger than an infant and she’d have had to use much greater force to subdue him even though the timeline would have remained similar. Three minutes of horrific pain and terror until a loss of consciousness then 3 more minutes of pressure to finish the job. Two kids down in 12 minutes.
It would have been even more difficult to with her only daughter, Cora, 5. The little girl would have witnessed one, if not both of her brothers, being systematically strangled by her mother. But fight as she might, she was no match for her mother. Lindsey Clancy caught her, held her down, and began the killing ritual. As the band went around her neck and the life was squeezed out of her over the next 6 minutes, she’d wondered why her mommy was hurting her. Imagine the pain, the confusion, the horror the little one endured in her final moments.
It took Lindsay 18 minutes to kill all three of her children.
Death by strangulation isn’t a fast or painless death, as she well knew since she was an RN. It is an up close and personal killing and she’d have witnessed every moment of pain and terror in their helpless eyes as the life faded from their bodies. She CHOSE how her children would die.
Notice how she didn’t try to hang herself because she knew what a horrific death that would be. She tried to give herself the easy death she denied her children.
Whatever her mental state, she is a cold blooded killer who wiped out her family with less mercy than a serial killer.
Lindsay Clancy is a monster who deserves to die exactly as her children did- afraid and in pain.
God can have mercy on her soul because I certainly won’t.
Lindsay Clancy strangled her three children to death.
She played with them in the snow.
Ordered takeout.
Called the pharmacy about their medicine.
Then she killed them one by one.
I don’t care if it was postpartum psychosis.
I don’t care about command voices or mental health debates.
Three little kids are gone forever because of what she did.
They deserved a mother who protected them — not one who took their lives.
She needs to be held fully accountable.
No excuses. No soft landing.
Justice for those babies. That’s it.
This piece of human garbage, co-chair of the @DemSocialists is being sued for non-payment for improvements on his house. SAME guy who rails against landlords while living in mommy and daddy’s $1.5mm house
I think most normal people's hearts break for the 3 defenseless toddlers she strangled to death, and the father who found them face down in the basement. I could be wrong, tho.
It's been pretty dark here lately, but it makes me all the more grateful to have a wife who really loves her children and is radically devoted to her family. And is even more repulsed by the Lindsay Clancy fan club than I am. It also makes me all the more sympathetic to the young men who haven't found a wife yet and are absolutely terrified of ending up with the sort of woman we see in these TikTok videos.
It's true that young people today "have it easy," in certain ways, when compared to older generations. But not in this way. When it comes to fulfilling the fundamental human need and desire to find a faithful, virtuous spouse and start a family, I think this generation can, without exaggeration, say that they just might have it worse than anyone ever has.
Some stories are bigger than politics.
Donald Trump’s mother gave him a Bible when he was a young man. Decades later, that Bible would accompany him into the presidency.
Then came Butler.
A bullet came within inches of changing American history, and Trump survived. Months later, he stood before the nation and declared that he believed God had spared his life for a reason.
For years, some Christians have compared Trump to King Cyrus, an imperfect man used by God at a critical moment in history.
Coincidence? Providence? That’s between you and God.
But one thing is undeniable… Trump’s journey has become one of the most extraordinary stories in American political history.
Brennan pushed harder than any network figure to force kids to take the shot. She even suggested children who were unvaccinated should be prevented from attending SUMMER CAMP.
Sophie Cunningham stood alone again.
Hand over heart. National anthem playing. Entire team just standing there.
While everyone else treated the moment like background noise, she showed basic respect for the flag and the country.
That’s not complicated. That’s not controversial. That’s just American.
God bless her for it. Keep standing tall, Sophie.