Maggie / TikTok I have a vivid memory of last year’s open house at my daughter’s elementary school. She took me down the fifth-grade hallway because that’s where the art room was. While she was overjoyed to show me her painting of a toucan, I couldn’t help but notice the stench that overwhelmed my poor,...
Celeste Yvonne, Brooke Raybould, Liz Minella / TikTok As a mom, life gets… insane. We all know this. We’re driving kids here and there. We’re working full-time. We’re meal planning and doing laundry and just living busy lives filled with never-ending to-do lists. Despite all this busyness, I still make time to hang out with...
Codependency Kate / TikTok A licensed family and marriage therapist, Kate Gray, wants to help dads do a little better because they might be (unintentionally) making their kids into people-pleasers. In her now-viral TikTok video, Gray shares how dads might accidentally instill certain pleasing behaviors in their kids and how to stop that in its...
@tiffany.creates / Instagram Confession: One of the reasons I wanted to be one and complete was because I just didn’t really want to have a boy after having my girl. Nothing against boys! I love them! I married one! I just really didn’t think I could handle the emotional labor of raising a boy in...