@mar1ssab / TikTok Whenever a pregnant friend of mine asks me for some advice as they enter motherhood, one thing comes to my mind immediately: sleep! Get all the sleep you can. Sleep in. Sleep early. Sleep often. Soak in every minute of those precious ZZZs because soon, they will be a distant dream. No one could have prepared me, a girl who loves her 8 hours, for what sleep deprivation feels like. I was in true misery. One mom says that people like me, who might be on the fence about kids, need to seriously consider sleep changes. It’s...
Mom Uses A Mental Health Hack To Deal With Toddler Tantrums
TikTok As TikTok belts out its (likely) swan song before being banned in the U.S. on January 19, users are pulling out all the stops. Some are making content they wouldn’t under typical circumstances (because who cares about lost followers when it’s all going kablooey?), others are opting to be deeply unserious (because why not have fun with it at this point?), and some are sharing their favorite moments from this silly little app. One of those is @newenglandrunnr — whom I’ll call Runnr — who wanted to share the best mom hack she ever got from TikTok: treating her...
How To Teach Your Tween To Be Assertive With Other Adults
SDI Productions/E+/Getty Images From the minute my first daughter was born, I was determined to raise her to trust her own voice. To speak up when she wanted to, to share her opinions without fear, to tell people how she felt. Of course, that’s trickier than it sounds. You want to raise a girl who is assertive, but you also don’t want her to confuse it with being disrespectful or rude. You must be polite, but you don’t have to be nice, right? But as my oldest grows and starts spending more time with adults outside of our family and...
What Is Slutty Pumping? Details On The Spicy Pumping Hack
@superdober19 / TikTok When I was a new mom, I was an exclusive pumper. This meant that every few hours, I would connect my pump and try to get as much milk as I could to feed my daughter. I would do all the pumping tricks, like drinking tea and power pumping. Eventually, my supply ran dry, and we switched to exclusive formula feeding. After watching a recent TikTok, there was another trick that I wish I would have tried — slutty pumping. So, what exactly is slutty pumping? Well, it’s exactly like it sounds! One mom on TikTok says...