TikTok / @fitpeanut There’s a lot of learning going on in the elementary years. It can be totally overwhelming to teach a child how to, well, live. Thankfully, we have teachers to help us out with a lot of it — but, one teacher on TikTok argues that certain things are simply parent’s responsibilities. Former...
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Urgent Care Is A Whole Different Experience For A Kid On The Spectrum
Maskot/Maskot/Getty Images My daughter, Indy, had a hard fall at the playground over the weekend. I could tell her shoulder was in pain and couldn’t wait for a regular pediatrician appointment on Monday. And that meant we had to turn to a solution that filled me with dread: urgent care. That’s because Indy is autistic,...
Eva Mendes Gets Emotional About Her Biggest Parenting Struggle: Yelling
Raymond Hall/GC Images/Getty Images Like many A-list actors, Eva Mendes’ life might not often seem relatable. But when she opened up publicly this week about her struggle not to yell at her children or to parent using fear. Breaking generations-long cycles of trauma is something many parents can relate to. The 50-year-old entertainer appeared on...
What Is Intensive Parenting? Details On The Latest Parenting Style
TikTok It’s not easy to be a parent, especially in today’s world — inflation that keeps inflating, a hyper-intense political climate, and the societal pressures to do it all and have it all. There’s a lot of pressure on us to create the next group of tiny humans into well-adjusted adults, and because of that,...



