All The Healthy Things I don’t know about you, but every time we go to Costco or in person to a grocery store, we grab a rotisserie chicken from the deli section. If you’re trying to eat more high-protein meals throughout the week, having a rotisserie chicken or some lightly seasoned cooked chicken breasts on deck is super helpful. You can turn them into a million different things, as you’ll see here, and having them cooked already saves so much time on a nightly basis when you’re just trying to get a decent dinner on the table. These rotisserie chicken...
Mom Shares An Effective Strategy To Dramatically Decrease SIDS Deaths
TikTok We love parenting in an age where all the answers in the world can be found on our phones. Early parenthood is hard, but it can be a little bit easier when you are connected to online communities and resources that offer up answers to your most pressing questions any time of the night or day. Of course, the flip side of that is everyone has access to this global community and not everyone checks their work for accuracy. (And, yes, some people are simply unhinged.) So when we see extraordinary claims about infant safety, we become just a...
Study: Parents OK With Spanking Children, But Not Hitting A Pet
Elizabethsalleebauer/RooM/Getty Images You are probably aware that spanking your kids is, well, terrible. And whether you agree or disagree, the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) has long advised that parents not hit their children, please and thanks. On top of that, decades of research has proven spanking to be ineffective at best, and harmful at worst. Nonetheless, many parents still use spanking as a disciplinary tactic. However, a new study shows that parents’ beliefs around hitting kids often don’t extend to other family members — or even pets. Yes, believe it or not, parents considered it more acceptable to hit...
Mom Asks Why Parents Don't RSVP To Kids' Birthday Parties Anymore
aislebeauty / TikTok When I was little, my mom would throw my birthday parties at our house. She’d serve pizza and cake. We’d play games. We’d have dance parties. Every kid in the neighborhood would swing by. They were always simple but never dull. All I really needed was my friends and some sweets. The parties were loud and plentiful with people (including all my family). Nowadays, kids’ birthday parties seem to be a bit different, and one mom is totally confused about when birthday party culture changed, questioning why parents don’t even bother to RSVP anymore. “Are parents so...