TikTok / Emily DiDonato After kids, life definitely changes. There is no debate about that. However, when one mom posted on TikTok that she can basically never sit down now that she’s a parent, people had some thoughts and questions, such as: Where is your partner? “I think that nobody warns you about when you...
TikTok Coparenting is full of challenges, compromises, and considerations. No one, even the most conscientious of uncouplers, will suggest that raising a child across two different households is easy. But I swear, some people are making it even harder than it needs to be by refusing to do literally any of the work. Recently, TikTok...
Scary Mommy/Getty The year was 2011. It was 9 a.m., and I had just dropped my 3-year-old daughter off at preschool. As I began pushing the stroller with baby number two along 3rd Avenue in New York City, I heard a male voice call my name. I turned around and saw him: my friend *Stephanie’s...
Axelle/Bauer-Griffin/FilmMagic/Getty Images As a divorced mom raising two children, I admit I get more than a little annoyed when my married friends say they’re “single parenting” when their spouse is away on a work trip. But I also have a divorced friend who gets miffed when I say I’m a single parent — because my...