Kier Gaines / TikTok We’ve all heard the term “default parent.” That’s the parent who does the majority of the labor in the household, and not just the cooking and cleaning and child-rearing, but the mental load too. The schedules, the meal planning, etc. It’s a lot. So, when we pick partners who are actually...
Scary Mommy; Amazon Welp, we made it! Here we are in the final calendar month of the year, and it’s almost over — but there’s still enough time in December to make a few last-minute Amazon purchases. While the Scary Mommy team has been preoccupied with holiday gifting lately (like most moms, in all likelihood),...
Paige Turner / TikTok One mom on TikTok, Paige Turner, is pointing out yet another glaring injustice between men and women. She is seriously the queen of these eye-opening (and quite frankly depressing) double standards that often occur in marriage. In one of her latest videos, Paige points out something called “the leisure gap” which...
Maria Korneeva/Moment/Getty Images You know you love it — those wiggly-bodied, rug rippin’, can’t-contain-the-excitement zoomies your dog gets after a bath, a chilly trip outside, or whenever you get home after a long day. But exactly why do dogs get the zoomies? It’s sort of a funny habit, to be so excited by something that...