When you were a kid, socks were probably the last thing you wanted for Christmas — about one step up from an actual lump of coal. You wanted Barbies! A zillion pieces of chocolate! My Little Ponies! Or, once you got to be a too-cool-for-school tween, an inflatable chair and some of that St. Ives...
Riska/Getty Images For many people, the cliche holds up: The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. But for a lot of us, the opposite is true — and our struggle with this season is often rooted in a fractured relationship somewhere in our family tree. As a veteran social worker, I’ve seen...
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Stocksy, Spotify, Getty Images, Courtesy of Ashley Ziegler We all have those holiday songs where simply hearing the first few notes is enough to fill our souls with a unique sense of joy that you just don’t get any other time of the year. Mariah Carey’s iconic "All I Want for Christmas...
TikTok If your kid is in therapy, conversations about it can admittedly be pretty awkward. Do you ask about it? What do you do if they bring it up? Are you doing anything wrong? Can you do anything to help? It’s completely normal to want to help out your kid in therapy, and have absolutely...