TikTok / @chelseaaa0908 The holiday season can be exhausting for parents, so nobody can blame you for wanting to skip out on a certain labor-intensive tradition. Organizing an Elf on the Shelf is notoriously a ton of work, but one mom’s understandable attempt to explain it away didn’t exactly go as intended, either. In a...
@leah_mogfordxx / TikTok There’s constantly a debate about how many presents parents should get for their kids around the holidays. What is an “appropriate” amount of gifts? I know some of my friends get their kids around five presents: something they want, something they need, something to wear, and something to read. They typically add...
TikTok With just a few weeks until Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Eve, there’s no dearth of activities to keep a festive parent busy through to the end of the year. But while some parents are running around like headless chickens decked with holly, others just don’t quite get it. It’s not that they’re Grinches,...
Anna Barclay/Getty Images News/Getty Images ‘Tis the season for hot cocoa, Christmas movies, and waking up in a cold sweat at 3 a.m. because you forgot to move the Elf on the Shelf. Look, this is the most wonderful time of the year for a lot of people, but it’s also a time full of...