TikTok “All happy families are alike; each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.” Honestly, the truth in the opening lines of Anna Karenina never cease to ring true to me. The dynamics in place and perpetuated by families were often set into motions generations earlier and the unhappy ones have the unenviable task...
Category: mental health
How Makeup Can Help Our Sons, Even When It’s Just A Phase
TikTok Over the past decade or so, the phrase “Boys will be boys” has finally gotten the reckoning it’s always deserved. No, boys will not be unaccountable little hobgoblins who let other people deal with the consequences of their actions. Boys will be respectful and compassionate humans. But maybe it’s time we took yet another...
We Can Talk About Food With Kids Without Labelling It "Good" Or "Bad"
TikTok / @223in2023 If you’ve felt like the conversation around food and body image has taken a few steps back recently, you might be on to something. Diet culture seems to have done a 180 since the short, blessed era of 2010s body positivity, and it’s feeling suspiciously early 2000s recently. (Recession indicator? Maybe!) You...
One Big Thing Is Missing From Anti-Bullying Education
TikTok The most Millennial thing about me is my deep love of 30 Rock, and one of my favorite episodes is when Liz Lemon goes to her high school reunion — a successful, sophisticated New York TV writer — to stick it to all her bullies. But once she arrives, she reaches a horrible realization:...



