Emma Chao/Scary Mommy; Getty Images Ah, the end-of-the-year itch. We all know it well, right? We impatiently counted down the days to fall, but now that it’s here, a sense of dread has started to creep in over what’s to come. It feels like we’re on a crash course with holiday stress: wrapping presents (where...
AzmanL/E+/Getty Images The weekend my husband and I stopped drinking was a surprise to us both. I was taking my first solo mom weekend away from my 2-year-old son, staying at a beautiful seaside hotel. I went there with no intention of changing my behavior whatsoever. In fact, I packed a couple bottles of red...
Emma McIntyre/Getty Images Entertainment/Getty Images Moms, if not one has told you this, please let me be the one to (gently, lovingly) pop your bubble: there is no “having it all.” Not the way a lot of us probably imagined it at one point. No one excels in having a career and motherhood without help....
TikTok The idea of fathers being overprotective of their teenage daughters is a trope that might be as old as the existence of daughters. And on the one hand, yes, we all want to protect our children from physical and emotional harm, but sometimes dads take it to weird, frankly toxic, places. Professor Neil Shyminksy,...