StockPlanets/E+/Getty Images When I was in high school, my mom — who was a teenager in the ’70s and ’80s — was positively tickled by the fact that my friends and I wore flared jeans. “I never thought I’d see bellbottoms come back,” she’d marvel. “They’re not bellbottoms. They’re flared,” I’d counter. And she’d roll her eyes knowing that now she could truly appreciate the adage “Everything old is new again.” Fellow Millennials? It’s apparently our turn. Piper Sandler, a multinational investment bank and financial services company reached out to more than 6,450 Gen Z teens for its semi-annual Taking...
Everyone's Fine With A Sleepover Until It's Time To Send Their Kids To One
Halfpoint Images/Moment/Getty Images For many a Millennial, sleepovers were a quintessential part of childhood. I can’t count how many times a half-a-dozen (or more!) of me and my closest buds would gather at one of our houses, unfurl our sleeping bags, and giggle into the night. But in recent years, understandable fears of child abuse and assault have put a damper on the erstwhile rite of passage. Kind of. There’s an all-too-common, paradoxical refrain “They can come here, but you can’t go there.” The subject recently come up on Reddit’s r/Parenting from Redditor u/azulsonador0309 (we’ll call her Azul). “I do...
Is Aerosol Sunscreen Safe For Kids? Here's What Dermatologists Use Instead
Catherine Falls Commercial/Moment/Getty Images Maybe you want to stop carting around different kid-safe sunscreens and just use one can of spray sunscreen for the whole fam. Maybe all the news about banning fluoride and food dyes has you side-eyeing every ingredient label now. Listen, if your kid will absolutely not hold still for a lotion sunscreen application and the best you can do is a drive-by hose down with a spray SPF, do what you gotta do. But if you’re curious about whether spray sunscreens are safe or dermatologist-recommended, we went ahead and asked the experts — about the chemicals,...
Is The "Soft Life" Trend Compatible With Modern Motherhood?
Svetlana Repnitskaya/Moment/Getty Images Social media hasn’t always brought a lot of goodness into our lives, but the "soft life" trend feels like the perfect treat. It’s been a popular one over the last few years (especially on TikTok), thanks to the Nigerian influencer community, reported Forbes, and is a complete antithesis to the hustle culture and #girlboss era of the 2012- 2018ish era of social media. Less "leaning in" and more "lying down in the grass." It’s all about pushing for happiness and not seeing success in your job or career or corporate life as the biggest achievement in your...