TikTOk/@holli.grasmeyer Kids competitive sports can get very intense. I didn’t even realize how wild sports parents could be until my own kid started playing sports. Once she hit the field in her soccer gear, I was cheering and yelling from the sidelines. She was four years old at the time and you could have sworn I thought she was trying out for the U.S. Women’s Team. While my cheering from the sidelines is strictly for encouraging my child, some parents take a much darker route when it comes to being a soccer parent, getting critical of their kids or even...
This Is The Muscle Relief Cream I Keep On My Nightstand — & It’s Majorly Discounted For Amazon Big Deal Days
Amazon The first time I brought home a jar of Penetrex and set it on my nightstand, my husband laughed. Yes, I know — the name, not to mention my preference of keeping it bedside, makes it seem like it’d be for something more thrilling than muscle and joint aches. Over the years, I’ve tried many other muscle relief topicals with varying actives and much more demure names — but Penetrex is one that I always seem to return to for my run-of-the-mill back and neck aches. I started to think of it as my (saucy sounding) secret weapon. That’s...
When Is It OK To Let Your Kid Wear A Super-Scary Horror Movie Costume?
Ariela Basson/Scary Mommy; Getty Images, Amazon It’s a moment in parenthood that comes for us all: You’re walking the aisles of a Target or a Walmart or a Spirit Halloween, your kid darting back and forth inspecting all the costumes. And then suddenly, you pass their usual section and wind up in that one definitively scary corner. There’s a Ghostface bling mask that comes with a dress and bloody knife, 10 variations of killer clown, the smell of the latex masks is overwhelming and — jump scare — a costume of some abomination with its jaw hanging off. And that’s...
The Sh*t Kids Unintentionally Say Is Absolutely Wild & Brutal
FatCamera/E+/Getty Images If you have a kindergarten teacher in your life, give them a hug. They need it. Because they’ve now spent weeks in a classroom with 20 or so little personalities and little anxieties. And probably big insults. Because no one knows how to cut a person to the quick like a little kid. I’m talking about the kind of insults that you think about before you fall asleep at night, the kind that stay with you for years and years. Of course, the kids don’t mean to hurt your feelings, but that’s also kind of the worst part....