Scary Mommy / Tara Clark Ask Scary Mommy is our weekly advice column wherein Scary Mommy editors and guest editors — fellow moms like you — will answer your burning questions. You can send all of your questions and conundrums about parenting, family, and relationships to askscarymommy@bdg.com (don’t worry — we’ll keep you anonymous!). Tara...
kyonntra/E+/Getty Images At this point, we all know that parental leave in the United States is trash. We’re the only so-called “developed” country without guaranteed paid leave for new parents. The lucky few among us will have employers with generous leave policies. The less-but-still-kind-of lucky will be able to make use of the Family Medical...
Instagram / @parenting.resilience Is there a universal hardest age to parent? We whisper warnings about the terrible twos, but come on, are they really that bad? (Yes, they are). On the other end of the spectrum, angsty, pubescent teens also get a bad rap. One age doesn’t necessarily have a reputation, but it seems to...
Parenting is not for the faint of heart. Add on trying to heal wounds from your own childhood while being a kind, gentle, patient, non-reactive parent to your kid, and it can feel… even more overwhelming. Buzzwords like “gentle parenting” and “reparenting” fly around the internet, centered around the idea that we’re trying to do...