Tips For Supporting New Parents

     My article choice from The Onion is this article called, "Tips For Supporting New Parents". This article is basically what the title entails, an article dedicated to help new parents full of helpful advice for their family and friends. It offers great tips such as letting "them practice changing diapers on you" or even better, "offer then a bit of normalcy by refusing to acknowledge their newborn and acting confused whenever they bring it up." Just kidding, NEVER do these things. 

    The purpose of this article is to actually bring light to the fact that society often fails to provide real support for new parents. This article achieves this by using satirical strategies such as irony and exaggeration to get their point across. For example, suggesting to gift a mother a basket full of "kitchen knives, and Tide pods" is absurd. Instead of gifting something thoughtful and meaningful, the article suggests gifts that are harmful and useless. Not only that though, but the article also states that it would be helpful by "shooting them a simple text stating the current date, time, and president" as it "can go a long way." Obviously shooting them a text about the date and president isn't helpful! Even if you have a big responsibility such as raising a baby, you probably would still know who your current president is. 

    Clearly, these "helpful tips" aren't very helpful. But they provide society with the fact that new parents are left with such a big task, but such little help and resources. I think overall, this article suggests that these unrealistic expectations put onto new parents plus the lack of help from family and friends despite their good intentions is a lasting problem in society currently!




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  1. AnonymousMarch 2, 2025 at 6:18 PM

    Your ability to analyze the article thoroughly AND use informal language very impressive and makes me, the reader, enjoy the write much more, since its more lighthearted. Nice job Megan!

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