Scary Mommy Big news: you’re going to Disney World! Mom and Dad are excited, your youngest is thrilled, but your tween or teen… well, not so much. Maybe Disney World seems too little-kid-ish, or maybe they’re in a phase where spending time with the family feels like a prison sentence. Either way, their reaction to an exciting family vacation is not exactly what you were hoping for. Thankfully, if any place on the planet could encourage a grumpy teen to let loose and embrace their childhood — which, let’s be honest, they really want to distance themselves from — it’s...
How & Why Dads Should Make Holiday Magic
TikTok With just a few weeks until Christmas, Hanukkah, and New Year’s Eve, there’s no dearth of activities to keep a festive parent busy through to the end of the year. But while some parents are running around like headless chickens decked with holly, others just don’t quite get it. It’s not that they’re Grinches, they just don’t see why we can’t all do just a bit less — or they don’t realize that they aren’t sharing the very big holiday load. But TikTok creator Justin Kellough (@parentingcheerleader) offers advice to the less festive parents among us: step up anyway...
I'm 50 & This Is What I Want For Christmas
I could sit here and tell you that there’s nothing I want for Christmas. That I’m fine waking up on Christmas morning with no gifts under the tree with my name on them. I could even say it in the most convincing way with a smile. But I’d be lying. And yes, the most important thing to me is that my family is happy and healthy and that we get to spend time together. I’m still human, though. Maybe at this age I shouldn’t get as excited for Christmas as I do. And maybe I shouldn’t want there to be...
31 Gifts For People Obsessed With Christmas
Amazon; Bogg; Lucy Jaynes Apparel Co. We all have that one friend who loves Christmas so much that their Christmas playlist is queued up on Nov. 1 with Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas blasting over the speakers. Next thing we know, they’re counting down to Freeform’s “25 Days of Christmas” schedule and guessing what the new Starbucks Holiday Cups will look like. So what on Earth do we get our Christmas-obsessed friends? The good news is there are lots of really cool, cozy, and downright merry gifts for everyone who makes Christmas their whole personality for the entire...