TikTok / @jessicarteich I think we all know the rules by now: don’t ask people when they’re planning on having kids. It’s weird, invasive, and plain impolite. Unfortunately, parents don’t always tread so lightly around this touchy subject — I just can’t wait to be a grandmother has to be up there in the list...
TikTok One of the greatest opening lines in all of literature probably comes from Tolstoy’s Anna Karenina: “Happy families are all alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” There are, indeed, lots of ways dysfunction and trauma can rear their ugly heads. Many people might immediately think about high conflict families —...
Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images For some parents-to-be, finding just the right baby name can be a challenge. For others it’s easy: certain names just come to them as if by divine inspiration. The first time my husband suggested what ultimately became our daughter’s name, I knew that was the one. Redditor u/PollutionWild4637 (we’ll call her Wild) had...
TikTok For most of the first few years of my kids’ lives, my husband and I lived in a mother-in-law apartment in my grandparents house. The homes were connected by a door in each of our respective kitchens, and when my kids needed a change of scenery or more room to play, they’d head into...