TikTok Remember your child’s baby book? The one you started filling out diligently before likely petering off somewhere around four months or so? (Whoops.) I find it interesting that more often than not, those books tend to stop when your child hits about one year old. By then, they may be walking (or not). They may be talking (or not), and that’s really kind of the last time we think about developmental milestones. But TikTok creator Emily (@occupationalemily), a pediatric occupational therapist, urges parents to keep up that same excitement as children move from babies to toddlers to preschoolers. “Developmental...
4 Things Your Middle Child Needs To Hear Every Day
d3sign/Moment/Getty Images As a middle child, one of the reasons I was so adamant about having an odd-numbered amount of children is because I wanted to raise a middle child. There’s something incredibly special about every kid, but middle kids are just built different — and I know this even better through parenting my three girls. My middle child is my weird one, my sensitive one, my people-pleaser, my hey-guys-lets-keep-the-peace girl. Middle child syndrome is 100% real, and that’s why it’s so important to have a list of things your middle child needs to hear every day. OK, so middle...
A Dad Wants To Know Why Moms Are So Much More Stressed About Travel
TikTok / @sheisapaigeturner You know that feeling you get about a week ahead of a so-called relaxing vacation, when you have to do laundry to pack, but then you have to do laundry again the day before you leave, so you have to leave some room in the suitcase, and the fact that there’s an unzipped, three-quarters-full suitcase lying on your bedroom floor fills you with total anxiety? Yes? Okay, well, one dad is not familiar. “The day before my family travels anywhere, my wife carries a certain amount of stress that I can’t seem to alleviate, and it’s about...
This Dad Wants To Take A Long Paternity Leave… To Golf
KOLOstock/Photodisc/Getty Images Adjusting to life with a new baby in the house — whether it’s your first or your fifth — always has some learning curve. It’s not just figuring out your new little human, it’s figuring out how this little human is going to affect all the relationships in your home, including with your partner. Readjusting who does what to make the household run when there’s a new baby in the mix can be difficult… but boy oh boy, do some people start this out on the wrong damn foot! One mom on Reddit’s popular r/Parenting subreddit wonders if...