Layland Masuda/Getty Images I don’t think I’m alone in feeling conflicting emotions about being a mother. My daughter is both the best part of my life and has also changed every single element of it drastically. I love her to pieces, but I still end some days feeling more emotionally, physically, and mentally drained than...
@theflockingbennetts / TikTok It’s common knowledge that youth sports have taken a bit of a weird turn for kids today. Travel sports start younger. Practices are constant. Games schedules take over families’ entire autonomy. This also counts for school sports as kids get older. So, recreational sports leagues have always been known to be a...
blackCAT/E+/Getty Images Families come in many shapes and sizes, and one dynamic that received a closer look in a recent study is "elective co-parenting,” or when two or more people decide to raise children together outside of a romantic relationship. Elective co-parenting has long been practiced in the LGBTQ+ community, but what is new is...
The Good Brigade/DigitalVision/Getty Images I love New Year’s resolutions. I love the celebratory feeling of starting a new year, and I love the kiss goodbye (or curse, I don’t judge) we give to a year just finished. While I still maintain that, as a mom, my “real” New Year begins with the back-to-school season, there’s...