Fran Polito/Moment/Getty Images In my 13 years of parenting, I’ve spent no small amount of time in online parenting spaces — message boards, Reddit, Facebook — and I know by now what topics have proven to be boundless sources of discussion. Screentime, picky eating, flu vaccine, sure, but there’s one niche subject that never fails...
Pekic/E+/Getty Images My 11-year-old has started calling me “bro,” and it’s all my fault. He never says it in a cute, loving context. It gives off a kind-of frustrated, are you serious vibe. And I’m over it. But while I feel a little boggled that we are here, I don’t think I should be surprised....
TikTok / @chelseaexplainsitall We were all 13 once. Fighting with your parents over nearly everything under the sun is as much of a right of passage as a bat mitzvah. As a teen, you wonder why your parents just couldn’t understand you. As a parent arguing with your own 13-year-old, you kind of want to...
dr_rossome / TikTok When my daughter was a toddler, we put her to bed around 6:30 PM. Most of my friends and family thought I was pretty crazy for doing so, but she was a very early riser (no matter what time she went to sleep!), so we always thought the earlier, the better to...