@kristina_fortuna / TikTok If you had the means, would you hire help during the ever-exhausting newborn stage? I had friends with night nurses, and I used to cry with pure jealousy at how fortunate they were to be able to afford that kind of help. Everyone raises their kids in different ways, with different means,...
Twitter / Etsy Hi, my name is Katie, and I am an introverted parent. Of course, I was given an extremely extroverted child who makes friends everywhere she goes and invites the entire world over to our house. She’s still pretty young, so it’s up to me to make sure playdates happen for her, especially...
TikTok Most of us can probably recall some sort of digital whoopsie where a message went somewhere other than its intended recipient. I once texted one friend about another only to discover I was texting the person I was talking about. (Thank god it wasn’t anything I wouldn’t have said to their face.) But others...
Growing up, my parents would constantly complain that they “sounded like a broken record.” And, honestly, they did. Being a parent often means repeating the same lesson hundreds of times, in a desperate attempt to get it through stubborn kiddo’s heads. But one mom on TikTok suggests a strategy that can help make this process...