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,...
Abby Eckel / TikTok Time and time again, we hear stories about incompetent dads and husbands. Those guys who insist on having big families but when it comes to the actual work of raising that family, they check out. One mom is calling out this double standard in her latest TikTok, noting that men are...
Before becoming a parent, my weekends were gloriously free. I could sleep as late as I wanted, marathon watch Law and Order: SVU, day-drink with friends, curl up with a book. It didn’t matter because no one relied on me. Now, as a mom of two, ball games, play rehearsals, and my kids’ increasingly rigorous...
TikTok We’ve told our girls for years that they can be and do anything, gender norms be damned. So don’t listen to anyone telling you girls don’t play sports or study science or have to love pink, we tell them, you be you. But when it comes to boys, that messaging hasn’t, perhaps, been as...