AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images Last year, Instagram announced Teen Accounts with the goal of making kids ages 13-17 safer on social media when it comes to overuse, bullying, and inappropriate content. Now, a year later, Meta is adding to those protections on Instagram while also expanding the program to two other social platforms, Facebook and Messenger. In...
Category: tweens & teens
We Can Talk About Food With Kids Without Labelling It "Good" Or "Bad"
TikTok / @223in2023 If you’ve felt like the conversation around food and body image has taken a few steps back recently, you might be on to something. Diet culture seems to have done a 180 since the short, blessed era of 2010s body positivity, and it’s feeling suspiciously early 2000s recently. (Recession indicator? Maybe!) You...
One Big Thing Is Missing From Anti-Bullying Education
TikTok The most Millennial thing about me is my deep love of 30 Rock, and one of my favorite episodes is when Liz Lemon goes to her high school reunion — a successful, sophisticated New York TV writer — to stick it to all her bullies. But once she arrives, she reaches a horrible realization:...
Why Running Errands With Our Teens Is A Win-Win Situation
TikTok As a mom to two children in double digits, a lot of things in my life have gotten a whole lot easier. Not only are they more able to pull their weight around the house (ya girl hasn’t unloaded a dishwasher in years), but leaving the house is similarly less stressful. Errands are more...



