TikTok For many parents, deciding where to send your child to school can be one of the most stressful decisions of their early life. Many families might even move in order to be in a “good school district” with high-ranked, award-winning schools. But TikTok user Lindsay Templeton (@lhtempleton), former education analyst who worked on school rankings, wants parents to rethink how they might think about quality education. Specifically about those rankings. “I don’t believe the rankings tell us much about the school, or at least what I want to know,” she writes in her caption. “We need to make the...
Why I Chose A Democratic Parenting Style
Just as I was starting kindergarten, women of Iran lost their right to wear what they wanted. In a matter of weeks, freedom of thought and lifestyle choices fell under relentless scrutiny by the newly minted morality police and became targets of persecution. When children innocently recounted their dinner conversation at school, their parents were arrested for having opinions at odds with the regime’s ideology. I quickly learned when to be subversive and when to keep my opinions to myself and obey the authority as if my life depended on it — which, at times, it truly did. When I...
Missouri Bill Wants To Track Pregnant Women "At Risk Of Abortion"
SolStock/E+/Getty Images Nearly three years after the fall of Roe v Wade, states are still determining what abortion access looks like. Some states have sought to expand access while others have severely limited the procedure’s very legality. Recently, a Missouri politician has sought a novel and unorthodox approach to reducing the number of abortions in the state. House Bill 807 — the Save MO Babies Act— introduced by Republican state representative Phil Amato, seeks to create a state-run registry of any mother “who is at risk for seeking an abortion.” The bill does not outline how that “risk” would be...
Did This Woman Overstep By Confronting A Stranger's Teenage Son?
TikTok We’ve all been there. Maybe you were enjoying a stroll in the park or an errand run in Costco when you were stopped in your tracks — you’ve just heard the most jaw-dropping, utterly rude comment from a child to their parent. Most of us would probably do our best to stay out of it, maybe at most offering a sympathetic look to the offended parent. But recently one woman decided enough was enough and took it a step further — and now she wants to know if she crossed the line. Andrea Krystal posted a video to TikTok...