TikTok For years, my children’s sleepy time routine stayed the same: when 8 p.m. rolled around, everyone knew it was time to head upstairs, brush their teeth, read a book, and go to bed. As they got older, it was hard to know whether I should heed their pleas for a later bedtime. What should...
Edwin Tan /E+/Getty Images Ah, the newborn phase! Baby snuggles, cute little noises, and…no sleep! Some look back fondly on this part of parenting when their kids were just little babies (who didn’t ask for snacks and couldn’t talk back) who slept 18 hours a day and were just the cutest little balls of love....
Halloween is — by nature — about having a chaos-filled, candy-fueled night. And as it stands, it’s not terribly inclusive of those of us who are on the spectrum. As Halloween is (if you can believe it) fast approaching, it’s important to create a more neurodivergent-inclusive night. Before we get to the “how” of how...
John Nacion/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images If you have a uterus then, barring certain medical anomalies, you will at some point deal with puberty, periods, and menopause. Oh! And also perimenopause. Unfortunately, these are subjects not often openly discussed, either in public or in families. Case in point, my spellcheck doesn’t even recognize the word “perimenopause!”...