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A Worried Redditor Receives Heartwarming Advice About Having A 'Weird Kid'
Everyone knows how it feels to be left out, it’s part of growing up. But boy does it hit harder when it’s not you experiencing this awful-if-universal pain, but your uniquely wonderful kiddo. That’s why one Redditor, u/katren08, went to the popular r/Parenting page to seek advice for her daughter’s back-to-school anxieties.
A Touching Viral Video Shows “The Village” A Solo Mom Found While Traveling
Sometimes, something goes viral for the best possible reason. TikTok user @notaregularnanny — who calls herself Gabs — posts about “solo mom things,” which, as you can imagine, can often be challenging. Babies are small but even with an extra pair of hands, caring for them can be exhausting under the best of circumstances. Add even one new factor into the mix and things can quickly spiral from challenging to “just not worth it.” In other words, there’s a reason a lot of your friends with small children don’t do a whole lot of traveling. But Gabs pushes back on the idea that traveling alone with a kid means you don’t have any help.
How Involved Should You Be In Your Child's Friendships?
One thing I was fully not prepared for when I became a mom is how much I would worry about my kids' friendships. Even when they're tiny little potatoes rolling around on a blanket during a playdate, you worry about it. You invest time and energy into making connections for them, putting them in preschool so they can "be socialized," encouraging them to say hi to other kids at the park and to share their toys.
This Mom Wonders If It’s "Too Early" To Start Decorating Her House For Halloween
When does it feel appropriate to start decorating your house for fall and Halloween? Does there need to be a crisp in the air? Does the summer season have to be completely over or do you deem the kids going back to school the official “end of summer”? The official first day of Fall is over a month away — Sep. 22 — but who wants to wait until then?
ICYMI, The Diplomat Season 2 Is Coming This Fall
In a year when politics seem to dominate, well, everything, sometimes you just need a break. And when real-life politics start to feel overwhelming, Netflix has the perfect temporary distraction: The Diplomat, a razor-sharp political thriller series that weirdly won’t make you feel worse about our state of affairs, despite the fact that it’s essentially a treatise on how f*cked-up democracy and diplomacy have become. But with Season 2 dropping this fall, we’ll soon find out... how much worse can things get?
"Do Y'all Actually Like The People You're Married To?"
Husband/wife relationships have their ups and downs even under the best of circumstances. No one can be a perfect partner, but a recent stitch from TikTok user Neil Shyminsky, who posts as @professorneil, some were asking why being an inconsiderate partner has become a source of comedy. Shyminsky created a...
7 Family-Friendly Things To Do In Lovely, Idyllic Bar Harbor, Maine
There is something deeply special about the coast of Maine, especially smaller coastal towns like Bar Harbor. From beaches to mountains to some of the most beautiful sights one can witness, Bar Harbor, located on Mt. Desert Island, is the quintessential family-friendly destination. It’s the perfect place to take the kids, slow down, and just enjoy the gorgeous foods and delicious lobster rolls.
This Is The Reality Of A Single Mom Summer
I’m divorced, and so every summer, my four sons — ranging in age from toddler to preteen — go to their dad’s house about two hours away for about two weeks, which is the biggest block of continuous time they have with their father all year together. They also spend time with their extended family and grandparents, too. That extended family used to be my family too — people who stood elbow-to-elbow with me in the kitchen as we mixed potato salad and shaped ground chuck into hamburgers and yes, okay, gossiped sometimes. Now the potato salad gets made without me and I can only assume that the gossip is probably about me.
Here’s Everything New Coming To Disney World In The Next 5 Years — & What’s Leaving
Change is inevitable, but that doesn’t mean people will take it well. When Disney World first announced it would be reimagining Magic Kingdom’s outdated Splash Mountain into the Princess-and-the-Frog-inspired Tiana’s Bayou Adventure, you’d think someone put out a press release saying Mickey Mouse himself was getting the boot. Disney fans had big feelings. But, hey, maybe the overreaction stemmed from the switch-up catching them off-guard. So, maybe now is a good time to talk about all of the other attractions and experiences leaving Disney World soon?
This Mom Was Raised With Gentle Parenting & She Thinks It Did Wonders
Let’s face it — parenting is a little scary. The way we choose to parent can have a big impact on our kids’ futures, and we know that because we’ve probably noticed our own parents’ impacts on ours. We’re constantly asking ourselves, what’s the right way to parent? Or more likely, how do I not screw my kid up?
Isabelle Fuhrman’s Magical (& Unusual) Plan B
At 27 years old, actor Isabelle Fuhrman is already an 18-year Hollywood veteran. She rose to prominence in 2009 with the cult horror classic Orphan (she says she is still most recognized as the psychotic “Esther,” despite being 10 when the movie was filmed). Over the years she has appeared in blockbusters (The Hunger Games), prestige dramas (The Novice), comedies (Sheroes), and more horror, including reprising her breakthrough role in Orphan: First Kill. Her latest film, Horizon: An American Saga, written and directed by co-star Kevin Costner, is a long-awaited, multi-part epic (she’s currently filming subsequent installments). But despite her successes — commercial, critical, and cult — Fuhrman has always wanted to have, as she puts it, a Plan B.
This Mom Was Shocked To Learn Her Son Watched The "Skibidi Toilet" Video In Preschool Class
If you’re the parent of a tween or teen (or even any school-aged kid), you’re probably familiar with the cultural phenomenon known as “Skibidi Toilet.”. Skibidi Toilet is an animated video series created by Georgian animator Alexey Gerasimov. The plot of these videos generally depicts “Skibidi Toilets” — mobile toilets with creepy AF human heads popping out of their bowls — are at war with humanoids that have speakers, cameras, and TVs for heads.
This “Venmo Mom” Doesn’t Want To Volunteer At School — She’d Rather Foot The Bill
School is coming (or maybe has already started for you and your kids) and it’s time for 1,000 different push notifications a day, emails from the teacher, sports sign-ups, and several opportunities to volunteer or chair some fun run or school fundraiser. But what if you don’t want to...
The Animatronic Dancing Wednesday From Lowe's Is Your New Halloween Personality
You know the dress. You know the dance. You know the creepy, kooky, mysterious, and spooky look. And now you can have your own animatronic dancing Wednesday in your front yard this Halloween. Lowe’s is dropping some perfectly eerie Halloween decorations this year, and one of their new big collections...
'I Resent My Husband Getting A Promotion'
Summer vacation is drawing to a close, and if your feelings could be summed up as, “I’m sweaty and my family is driving me nuts,” you’re not alone—at least one person in the Scary Mommy Confessional feels the same way. (It hasn’t been an unbearable season for everyone, though—one reader says a fun summer with the kids is “healing [their] inner child”). Read on for these confessions and more, on topics ranging from difficult in-laws to promotions that actually make family life harder.
My Dog Is My Third Child & My Husband Resents Me For It
Yesterday morning, while getting ready to leave the house, I gave my two sons a kiss and hug goodbye. Then I knelt down and gave my dog a kiss. And then I very nearly walked out the door before realizing I had forgotten to include my husband in the goodbyes.
This Is The Muscle Relief Cream I Keep On My Nightstand — & It’s Majorly Discounted Right Now
The first time I brought home a tub 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 why I was both surprised and validated to realize it recently surpassed 15,000 positive ratings on Amazon.
Are Crocs-Style Shoes Actually Bad For Your Kids' Feet?
After my 4-year-old sustained a set of blisters on the bottom of his big toes while wearing a pair of beloved Crocs, I went down a Reddit rabbit hole to figure out whether every kid's favorite summer shoe style is actually the worst. What I found: Crocs-style shoes aren't just ugly. (I SAID IT.) They can cause real harm to our kids' delicate little piggies, developing gaits, and more — at least according to the internet.
Texas School Bans All-Black Clothing Because It’s “Associated With Depression”
Growing up in the ’90s, goth culture took on a life of its own. From The Crow to The Craft (“I bind you, Nancy, from doing harm!”), there was a subset of youth who dressed in all black and wore heavy black makeup. In my town, they...
A Grandma Offers Amazing Advice For When You Disagree With Your Grown Children’s Parenting
Clashes between parents and grandparents over the best way to raise a child are as old as grandparents themselves. At times it can just be straight up funny: “You’re just going to buy them that toy because they glanced at it in the store? Where was this women when I was a child and begging?” But somethings things can also get pretty harried, like when a grandparents are having a tough time getting on board with a parents’ rules. TikTok user @mommom.maria, who frequently posts about being a grandma, has advice for grandparents who disagree with their child’s parenting choices.
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