Riska/Getty Images For many people, the cliche holds up: The holidays are the most wonderful time of the year. But for a lot of us, the opposite is true — and our struggle with this season is often rooted in a fractured relationship somewhere in our family tree. As a veteran social worker, I’ve seen it time and again. I’ve counseled people through grief, loss reunification, and estranged relationships. But I speak from personal experience, too — my connection with my father has become so strained that we’ve ultimately had no contact for the last five years. It’s not that...
If A Kid Is In Therapy, The Parent Should Be, Too, One Therapist Says
TikTok If your kid is in therapy, conversations about it can admittedly be pretty awkward. Do you ask about it? What do you do if they bring it up? Are you doing anything wrong? Can you do anything to help? It’s completely normal to want to help out your kid in therapy, and have absolutely no idea how. One therapist offered her thoughts on how you can be of service in your child’s therapy journey. Her answer? Go to therapy yourself. Emily, of @therapybyemily_ on Instagram, is a licensed clinical social worker and therapist. She responded to a fellow therapist...
Mom Explains Why Stress Is A Valid Reason For Kids To Stay Home
TikTok We have a rule in my house: each of my children is allowed one mental health day that they can call just about whenever they want. If they really, really don’t want to go to school — for whatever reason — they can stay home and comfortably rot for a while. If they attempt to pull that card out of the deck, I’ll make sure they really mean it. (Like the other day when my son wanted to use it for half a day: like, dude, stop and think about what a waste that would be.) But generally if...
Can Sleeping On Wet Hair Really Cause It To Mold? TikTok Says Yes
skynesher/E+/Getty Images Drinking clove water daily, cleaning the seals around my washing machine’s door, and doing affirmations with my kid every night before bed — if we did everything TikTok suggests we do, there’d be no time for anything else in a day. But in recent months, hairstylists have been posting about how they can tell which clients go to sleep with wet hair because their hair smells moldy (*gag*). Can sleeping on wet hair really cause it to mold? We asked a dermatologist to weigh in. Stylists on TikTok say that, yes indeed, going to sleep with wet hair...