TikTok / @cameronoaksrogers Do you feel a strong desire to make a mom angry? Like, really piss her off? Now, I don’t know why you would want to, but if there’s one way to do it, it would be by speaking to her through her baby. New moms have enough to deal with, from their postpartum health to plenty of unwelcome scrutiny on how they decide to raise their child. On top of all that, new motherhood can bring along a major identity crisis — all the sudden, people see you as “mom,” and hardly anything else. So yeah, really...
Is Your Kid’s Name Also A Popular Name For Pets?
Katrin Primak/Moment/Getty Images One of my favorite parts of pregnancy is finding baby names. My husband and I always joked that in a cartoon world with no problems, practicality, or consequences, we would just keep having babies so we could keep naming them. But alas, since humans are not hamsters (great news for babies who don’t want to be eaten, BTW), I will never be able to give all the awesome names backlogged in my brain to actual children. Juniper, Carmen, Malcolm, and Cormac, we hardly knew ye! But we are given some opportunities to redirect that energy: pets! And...
Moms: Leave Your Daughter's Unibrow Alone
Fran Polito/Moment/Getty Images In my 13 years of parenting, I’ve spent no small amount of time in online parenting spaces — message boards, Reddit, Facebook — and I know by now what topics have proven to be boundless sources of discussion. Screentime, picky eating, flu vaccine, sure, but there’s one niche subject that never fails to make a repeat appearance and hit me where I live: “I feel guilty even writing this,” it often begins. “But my daughter has a unibrow. Now that she’s getting older it’s more noticeable. I wonder if I should tweeze it or take her to...
The Ultimate Disney World Monorail Bar Crawl Awaits. Here's Your Pro Guide.
Cory Disbrow/Getty Images There are quite a few Disney World rites of passage — from having Dole Whip to that first time that you’re tall enough to ride Space Mountain. But there’s another milestone that anyone can participate in, and it takes place outside of the theme parks: the Disney World monorail crawl. If you’ve been any part of #DisneyTok, you’ve likely seen this unofficial activity, which is a favorite pastime of many ear-toting mouse lovers. And unlike Epcot’s World Showcase crawl — commonly referred to as "drinking around the world" — it requires no theme park tickets. I’ve been...