TikTok Kids say the darndest things, and sometimes those things are not rude, but nevertheless, they have the capacity to make you feel bad about yourself. Kids do this to us all the time — like when my daughter reminded me to make a waxing appointment by observing, “I never noticed you had a mustache...
@erinward__ / TikTok There are few more significant decisions in your life than deciding whether to have a baby. And I don’t mean “deciding you want to have children.” I mean each time you choose to have a child. But whether or not you believe birth order has an effect on someone’s personality (It does....
@beachgem10 / TikTok Having a sick child is difficult and often scary. You don’t always know what to do to make them feel better, and it’s made all the worse when they’re too little to tell you what’s wrong. But as cold and flu season approaches, Meghan Martin, a pediatric emergency medicine doctor, mom of...
StockPlanets/Getty Images I stand in solidarity with every parent going through a picky eating stage: It’s a f*cking minefield. One minute, peppers are all the rage and I’m buying them in bulk. The next, peppers are absolutely disgusting, and it’s unfathomable that I’d even think about serving them. Pediatric gaslighting — it’s a thing. So,...