kate_sept2004/E+/Getty Images Of all the milestones I’ve experienced as a mother so far, sending my oldest off to kindergarten in the fall of 2019 was the biggest. I was emotional about it from the very start, and spent all summer feeling anxious about how fast time was going and panicked that I was so anxious,...
StockPlanets/E+/Getty Images When I was in high school, my mom — who was a teenager in the ’70s and ’80s — was positively tickled by the fact that my friends and I wore flared jeans. “I never thought I’d see bellbottoms come back,” she’d marvel. “They’re not bellbottoms. They’re flared,” I’d counter. And she’d roll...
Halfpoint Images/Moment/Getty Images For many a Millennial, sleepovers were a quintessential part of childhood. I can’t count how many times a half-a-dozen (or more!) of me and my closest buds would gather at one of our houses, unfurl our sleeping bags, and giggle into the night. But in recent years, understandable fears of child abuse...
Svetlana Repnitskaya/Moment/Getty Images Social media hasn’t always brought a lot of goodness into our lives, but the "soft life" trend feels like the perfect treat. It’s been a popular one over the last few years (especially on TikTok), thanks to the Nigerian influencer community, reported Forbes, and is a complete antithesis to the hustle culture...