DisneyKids | YouTube I’ve been a parent for 13 years and in that time I’ve seen a number of new terms coined or popularized. “Gentle parenting.” “Spirited child.” “Crunchy Mom”( and her counterpart, “Silky Mom”). And then there’s “Core Memory,” which debuted in Pixar’s Inside Out. Far be it from me to even give the...
AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images Everyone I know is currently leaning into their granny era. They’re baking bread, they’re making quilts for their babies, they’re spending a whole lot of time making jam in their kitchens while listening to 50 Cent — the millennials are tired. And in a world where doomscrolling seems to be the #1 hobby...
Instagram / @heyjanellemarie “Why? I’ll tell you why, because I said so!” Sound familiar? “Because I said so,” is a staple of boomer parenting vocab. It exemplifies all of the parenting behaviors we’ve left in the past: the idea that children’s thoughts and feelings don’t matter, and that parents are always, without fail, correct. Millennials’...
BRENDAN SMIALOWSKI/AFP/Getty Images Secretary of Education Linda McMahon informed states last Friday that money many had been counting on for the coming year was — after a whiplash back and forth — no longer on the table. Shortly after wide scale shutdowns in mid-March of 2020, Congress established the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief...