Meta, the parent company of Instagram, announced on Tuesday, September 17th that the company has introduced teen accounts for the popular app. The purpose, of course, is to protect younger kids from both overuse and bullying on the photo-sharing app, and the company is giving parents a lot more control over how their kids interact...
— Kelvin Murray/Photodisc/Getty Images When you’re in the trenches with young kids, it feels like it will never end. There is no end in sight, and any kind of a break seems so far off it’s better to not even think about what you’d do with any spare time. Well, I’m here to tell you...
In typical ‘90s kid fashion, I grew up keeping a diary of my deepest thoughts, fears, and dreams. And, in continuing that millennial stereotype, I also grew up with the nagging fear that my parents would one day invade my privacy and read my diary. Now, as an adult and parent myself, my thoughts on...
— Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Shutterstock Like many moms of school-aged kids, JoAnna Garcia Swisher [Sweet Magnolias, Reba] spends a lot of her time in the car. Her daughters — Emerson, 11, and Sailor, 8 whom she shares with her husband Nick Swisher— are always off to somewhere. School, horseback riding lessons, cheer practice (“I’m officially...