TikTok Most of us can probably recall some sort of digital whoopsie where a message went somewhere other than its intended recipient. I once texted one friend about another only to discover I was texting the person I was talking about. (Thank god it wasn’t anything I wouldn’t have said to their face.) But others aren’t so lucky. In a recently revived video, TikTok user Emily King, who posts as @twodachshundkings, talked about accidentally inviting almost 500 people to her daughter Ivy’s birthday. “I just made an Evite for my daughter’s first birthday party,” she begins, sounding as though she...
Dopamine Menus For Kids & Families: Experts Love This Social Media Trend
Joey Ingelhart/E+/Getty Images Have you seen dopamine menus on your social media feeds yet? If not, you will now that you’ve read this far (thanks, algorithms). Dopamine menus are basically a list of activities that make you happy and probably release some feel-good hormones in your brain. They’re formatted like menus — with starters, mains, sides, and desserts — to help you organize your joy-bringing activities by how much time they take or how often you should indulge in them. So, here’s the deal with dopamine menus, and why they might be a really great tool to have around for...
Kate Winslet's Son Had An Emotional Reaction To 'Titanic'
CBS Photo Archive/CBS/Getty Images I’ve interviewed a lot of celebrities over the years, and one thing that always strikes me as funny is that just about all of them have asserted, without false modesty, that their children absolutely don’t care that their parent is a famous movie star. But Kate Winslet’s youngest child — Bear, 10 — apparently had an emotional reaction to watching his mom in Titanic, because even jaded Hollywood babies aren’t made of stone. During a red carpet interview for Lee — Winslet’s latest film in which she plays a war photographer in World War II —...
'Parenting One-Liners' Are The Shortcut Your Kids Need
Growing up, my parents would constantly complain that they “sounded like a broken record.” And, honestly, they did. Being a parent often means repeating the same lesson hundreds of times, in a desperate attempt to get it through stubborn kiddo’s heads. But one mom on TikTok suggests a strategy that can help make this process just a little bit easier. Nicole of @raisingkindkids on TikTok shared how she uses “parenting one-liners” in her house: short, straight-to-the-point quips that help kids remember important lessons and avoid long lectures. One, for example, is “You can be mad, but you can’t be mean.”...