TikTok Every Saturday, there’s at least several dozen protesters with signs gathered on my town’s central thoroughfare. It’s smack-dab in the middle of our town, just about everyone has had a chance to read their signs and hear their chants. My kids are older, and pretty politically aware, but not all kids are at the age to pay attention to NPR or head over to a news website and really absorb what the journalists are saying. So how do you explain protests to young children? TikTok creator and parenting coach Gabriel (aka @the_indomitable_blackman) recently offered some helpful tips to get...
When It Comes To Kids' Mental Health, It's Not The Screens, It's How They Use Them
D-Keine/E+/Getty Images It’s summer, school is out, and for a lot of kids and parents that means battles about screen time. As caregivers, we worry about our kids spending too much time playing video games or slurping up brainrot on YouTube.But a new study, published last week in JAMA, sheds new light on the nuances of this discussion. The study — led by Dr. Yunyu Xiao of Weill Cornell Medicine/NewYork-Presbyterian in New York — followed nearly 4,300 children across the U.S. for four years, starting at age 10. Researchers asked the tweens and teens not only how much time they...
Abortion Clinics Are Closing Across The Country & Not Just In Red States
Michael B. Thomas/Getty Images News/Getty Images The overturning of Roe v. Wade in 2022 created a patchwork of abortion access throughout the United States. Trigger laws, which stood to ban or severely limit the procedure but were blocked by Roe previous, immediately went into affect in a number of states. As such, clinics across the country are closing their doors… including in states more protective of abortion rights. Today, three years after the fall of Roe, 13 states have a total abortion bans while an additional 4 ban the procedure at six weeks, which is very often before someone knows...
Please Stop Saying "Just Wait" To Moms Of Tween Girls
NickyLloyd/E+/Getty Images I’ve heard a lot of bullsh*t as a mom to three girls. “Oh, your poor husband! He’s going to have to build himself a man cave.” “Bless you when they all hit puberty; you’ll be in for it.” “Better start saving for those weddings now.” I know people think they’re being funny, but it’s so full of gross misogyny that it’s impossible to see the “joke.” But the worst is what people have been saying to me lately, after they hear that my oldest is about to turn 11. They will make a face (you know the one)...