Mariia Borovkova/Getty Images It’s 3 a.m., and you’re wide awake — mulling over a tough work situation, obsessing about your baby getting SIDS, or worrying your teen will never get through a recent cyberbully-style drama. You feel totally alone in it… except for one place. Whether you hang out in Facebook groups, Instagram, X, Reddit, BlueSky, TikTok, or elsewhere, the internet moms are there for you. You rattle off a few paragraphs with your problems, and you have plenty of input within an instant. But with that, of course, comes no shortage of opinions, and with the opinions comes criticism. Next...
Dear Other Moms: Why Aren't You Talking To Me?
TikTok They say you can’t miss something you never had, but it seems that many a modern-mom longs for “The Village,” an imagined community of friends, family, and neighbors who look out for one another and build lasting bonds for a communal sense of well-being. We imagine bygone days of gathering together to do chores and watch babies together, or swapping childcare services with one another so that we can all have time for ourselves knowing our little ones are being lovingly cared for. And so TikTok user Alexa (@alexamariebrownie) wants to know: why aren’t we doing the bare minimum...
A Parenting Coach Shares How To Avoid Gaslighting Your Adult Children
Instagram / @destini.ann Parents of adult children, let’s have a chat. Has your kid ever shared a childhood memory with you, that just doesn’t align with your recollection at all? It might even portray you in a not-so-great light. How could this possibly happen? Before you say, “Well, that’s not how I remember it,” hear out certified parenting coach Destini Davis. In a video posted to Reels, Davis explained the emotional toll that being “seen and not heard” takes on kids — and how parents who instituted that rule can work to repair some of it’s damage. “Maybe you’re not...
Parenting Coach Shares How To Deal With Your Kid's Bad Attitude
bratbustersparenting / TikTok When kids bring attitude, it can be hard to not reciprocate or immediately reprimand, but is this the best way to approach our kids’ bad mood? One parenting coach, Lisa Bunnage, says definitely not! “You always ignore attitude. You never address it unless they swear or call you names,” Bunnage says. “Name calling and swearing can go on a behavior board. But other than that, yeah, you just ignore attitude. You can’t address it. Their bad attitude will naturally go away once you’re a leader. It’s the last thing that disappears organically by itself once they respect...