Monty Rakusen/DigitalVision/Getty Images People are all too quick to tell you how hard motherhood is. They tell you you’ll never sleep. That your house will never be clean again. About the Terrible Twos and Threenagers, but also “little kids, little problems; big kids, big problems.” But one thing no one tells you is how overstimulating...
Instagram No matter how old we are, our parents’ opinions hold tremendous sway in how we navigate the world, whether in seeking their approval or rebelling against it. If your parents’ opinions don’t have power over you anymore it’s probably thanks to hours of hard work in therapy. But for most of us, we often...
Elijah Nouvelage/Getty Images News/Getty Images | Tom Williams/CQ-Roll Call, Inc./Getty Images On April 15, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) released its findings on the prevalence of autism in the US in children between the ages of 4 and 8. Data was drawn from a monitoring network of 16 sites throughout the US...
TikTok / @codependencykate Nobody knows exactly what buttons to press like your teenager. It’s a talent, really. They somehow always know the exact thing to say to get under your skin, and they do not hold back. Kate Gray, aka Codependency Kate, a licensed marriage and family therapist, says that teenagers’ disrespectful — and sometimes...