Colton Underwood / TikTok On a recent episode of their podcast, Daddyhood, former The Bachelor star, Colton Underwood, and his husband, Jordan C. Brown, discussed some of the more frustrating parts of being a gay couple with a child, including people’s questions about the child’s mother. Underwood states frankly, “He does not have a mother.” In the clip shared to Underwood’s TikTok, Brown asks Underwood if he wants to dive into this topic. “Yeah. He’s our son, and he doesn’t have a mother. I think that is something– if I could scream it from the rooftop, I would,” Underwood says...
Preschools Are Expelling Students 3x More Than K-12
FatCamera/E+/Getty Images Over the past few decades, study after study have enumerated the many benefits of preschool for American children. Kids who attend preschool are better prepared for elementary school. Pre-K programs are particularly beneficial for low-income children and English language learners. Research from James Heckman, a Nobel Prize-winning economist, even found that society at large benefits from such programs: for every $1 invested in quality early childhood programs, we can expect between a $4 and $16 return. So why, if pre-K is so beneficial, does the United States suspend or expel nearly 1,000 children per day? According to the...
Does Your Child Have Low Sleep Needs? One Mom Says She Feels Your Pain
Amanda Talijan / TikTok My daughter has low sleep needs. What does that mean exactly? Well, she can sleep for less than the American Academy of Pediatrics-recommended amount of time for her age and still have more energy than I do after eight full hours. She can go, go, go on such a low amount of sleep with no slowing. She very rarely gets cranky from lack of sleep too, which is great, but my husband and I have about three years of sleep debt that we may never get back because of our five-year-old’s low sleep needs. We’re dead...
This Mom Wants "Honest Answers Only" About Other Parents Sex Lives
Ali Kay / TikTok In marriage, especially with kids, the frequency of sex is pretty fluid. Sometimes, you and your partner are back in the honeymoon phase, knocking boots left and right, and other times, you’re in a dry, dry sex drought. Kids are exhausting. Life gets in the way. Sometimes, sex just is not a priority. And everyone’s sex drive and need for sex is different! Are people really having as much sex as they say, especially tired parents? What’s “normal” when it comes to sex frequency? “If you are a mom and you have kids. I have a...