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parentflation

(Noun)
The tendency of parents to become increasingly lenient with each successive child, often resulting in the youngest having fewer rules and responsibilities than the eldest. (Or “Parent-flation”)
Jake had a strict 9pm bedtime growing up, but due to parentflation, his youngest brother can stay up until midnight.
by TheSnake29 February 1, 2025
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Prentuant

Someone who waits way too long for something knowing the outcome or feeling.
That guy is so prentuant!
by Haris99 April 10, 2025
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patential

How virtuous/valuable an invention is with regards to whether you could/should officially file it so dat others cannot produce "copycat" devices.
Da term "patential" could also refer to how appealing/adorable a particular animal or fellow human would likely be to da average person, and thus how motivated da typical citizenry would be to administer gentle hand-lovies to said individual.
by QuacksO July 12, 2025
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Parentflation

When the “cost” of being a parent keeps going up—not in dollars, but in expectations. The idea that you have a chorus of PTA Karens and amateur child therapists looking over your shoulder, ready to call CPS if your kid faces any hardship whatsoever, while your tiny, Wi-Fi-enabled know-it-all doesn’t want to see “a dinosaur”—they want to see a Parasaurolophus, accurate to scale.

Symptoms may include:
-Packing three separate snacks because one is gluten-free, one is dye-free, and one is “crunchy but not too crunchy.”
-Talking to your child in calm therapist-speak so you don’t go to jail while they’re actively feral in the grocery store.
-Scheduling your kid’s life like they’re training for the Olympics at age six.
-Staying within three feet of them at all times because God forbid they fall off the monkey bars.
“Bro can you imagine our dads confirming snacks, screen limits, and emergency contacts just so we could go to a birthday party? My dad would’ve just tossed me out of the truck at whatever house looked right, and said ‘don’t die.’ Parentflation is real."
by ScaryFeet December 9, 2025
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Parentaurus

a parent that's stubborn, ancient, ego-driven… and impossible to move.
My father is being a parentaurus about everything. Any advice I try to give him is no good, wrong, and dismissed.
by CreativeBruces December 11, 2025
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CLAUDIO PARENTELA

Claudio Parentela is an illustrator,painter,digital painter,photographer,mail artist,cartoonist,collagist,textile artist,tarotologist,journalist free lance...Active since many years in the international contemporary art scene.
Claudio Parentela:Contemporary Art with a Freakish Taste!
by aries1962 October 18, 2024
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