— Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock Exuberant cheers are coming from my basement. I hear the teenage verbal equivalent of high-fives (“Let’s go!”) and know that my 13-year-old son and his best friend just won the Battle Royale. If you had said things like “sandbox” and “squad” to me two years ago, I would have thought...
— LPETTET/E+/Getty Images It’s as much a tradition as taking a first-day-of-school photo with a chalkboard: bitching about the car line at school. I’ll be the first one to admit that I’ve huffed my way around the car line circle, throwing my hands up at parents who get out of the car to open their...
— Sarah Biggers-Stewart / TikTok Everyone remembers when they had the birds and the bees talk with their parents (if they had it at all!), and it’s always kind of weird and awkward. Sex can be an uncomfortable subject, but one mom wanted to change that and all the stigmatized, sexist rhetoric that comes with...
— Westend61/Westend61/Getty Images We have high expectations for baby names these days. We want them to be unique but not too weird, have vintage appeal but not sound outright “old,” and maybe, if it’s not too much to ask, they could have a special meaning too. That’s where forgotten names come in. These vintage baby...