Mapodile/Getty Images It’s the middle of the week. The whole family’s finally home after the hustle and bustle of school and work and extracurriculars. And everyone’s hungry. You’re exhausted (because *motherhood*), so you don’t have anything planned, which means whipping something up on the fly. Say it with me: uggghh. Cue rifling through the pantry...
StockPlanets/E+/Getty Images When I was in high school, my mom — who was a teenager in the ’70s and ’80s — was positively tickled by the fact that my friends and I wore flared jeans. “I never thought I’d see bellbottoms come back,” she’d marvel. “They’re not bellbottoms. They’re flared,” I’d counter. And she’d roll...
Halfpoint Images/Moment/Getty Images For many a Millennial, sleepovers were a quintessential part of childhood. I can’t count how many times a half-a-dozen (or more!) of me and my closest buds would gather at one of our houses, unfurl our sleeping bags, and giggle into the night. But in recent years, understandable fears of child abuse...
Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment/Getty Images Maybe you want to stop carting around different kid-safe sunscreens and just use one can of spray sunscreen for the whole fam. Maybe all the news about banning fluoride and food dyes has you side-eyeing every ingredient label now. Listen, if your kid will absolutely not hold still for a lotion...