Hinterhaus Productions/DigitalVision/Getty Images Whether you and your partner aren’t married but share kids, or you’ve remarried and each brought your own children into a blended family, or a whole host of other reasons, it’s not uncommon these days for parents to have a different last name than their kids. Generally speaking it’s no big deal, but if you’ve never flown with them before, you’re probably wondering: Can I travel if my child has a different last name than me, either domestic or international? You totally can, according to family law experts, but you’ll want to bring some extra documentation along...
Woman's Video Flipping The Holiday Roles Goes Viral
@clarabellecwb / TikTok The holidays tend to let that weaponized incompetence from partners shine. There’s so much going on — school spirit week, Christmas card orders, last-minute trips to urgent care — that default parents have about ten mental breakdowns before Christmas Eve. This mental load tends to land on moms, aka the default parent. So, what would happen if the roles were reversed, and moms were the ones just living life as normal and lending no help at all to make things run smoothly? Clare, @clarabellecwb on TikTok, created yet another hilarious satire video where she flips the holiday...
I'm Putting "From Mom" On My Kids' Christmas Presents This Year
AleksandarNakic/E+/Getty Images It started when I was a kid. After my siblings and I stopped believing in Santa, our Christmas presents would be labeled, “From Mom & Dad” — in my mom’s handwriting, of course. And while I was pretty aware that my mom was fully in charge of the Christmas magic in my house growing up, I didn’t really understand the sheer amount of labor that went into that job until I was a parent myself. That’s how, 25 years later, I found myself writing “From Mom & Dad” on my tweens’ presents even when I was the person...
8 Easy Cucumber Salad Recipes, Because That One Tik Tok Guy Got You Hooked
When it comes to food trends of 2024, the dense bean salad took off because it was truly functional. They’re all about no- or minimal-cooking-required recipes you can prep in one big batch, and that actually get better as their flavors marry throughout the week. Just as dense bean salads had their moment on Tik Tok this year, so too did cucumber salad recipes, all thanks to charismatic Tik Tok creator Logan Moffitt, a.k.a. that cucumber guy. Moffitt first went viral for his assertion that “sometimes you need to eat an entire cucumber,” and then showing us how to make...