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Southwest Airlines Is Getting Rid Of Their Open Seating Policy & People Have Mixed Reactions
After over 50 years, Southwest passengers will no longer select any seat they want when boarding a flight. Instead, the airline will offer assigned and “premium” seats with a revamped boarding model, the airline announced in a press release. Southwest is calling the change “part of an ongoing...
24 Amazon Purchases Scary Mommy Editors Are Loving In July 2024
We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Vibe check: How feral are your kids at this point in the summer, on a scale from one to 10? Wherever you land, presumably there are a lot of Amazon boxes arriving at your house to deal with it. Here at Scary Mommy, we’re making it through this chaotic time of year with our own purchases, and every month, we recommend the best of the bunch to you.
Kamala Harris Would Have Been The Dream Stepmom For My Kids
What I wouldn’t have given to have Kamala Harris as my kids’ stepmom, my own partner in raising my four boys when I was a single mom. What a difference it would have made in my life if my ex-husband had married someone like her, and we’d all had a Momala of our very own.
I’m In My 40s & I Feel So Alone
I think the hardest thing about my 40s is I feel like I am out here on my own. There is no safety net. My dad is dead, and my mom hasn’t been the same since he died 20 + years ago. I am responsible for myself and my family. And it’s a lot and lonely. I’m married and have a spouse that I can lean on, but he is navigating his own story, too. We are no longer playing house, and we can’t fuck this up. We have two kids who rely on us for everything, and I often feel like we have no idea what we are doing.
Disney’s New Preschool Toy Lineup Includes Some Fan Favorites
We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. In an Instagram world full of wooden blocks and rainbow scarves, it’s hard to find toys that look like the ones we had growing up. I am a nostalgic packrat who kept boxes and boxes of my own childhood toys, and seeing my kids play with my Flintstones characters from the ‘90s movie and all of my Lion King friends makes me super emotional. There’s just something about your favorite characters and movies coming to life in your hands, and Disney’s new preschool toy drop seriously honors that. With so much chatter about less #screentime and more neutral toys for “better imaginative play,” it’s easy for parents to stress about what their kids are playing and what they’re playing with — but play is play. And the new Disney preschool toy collection proves it.
Why Does My Cat Bite Me, AKA The Literal Hand That Feeds Them? What Gives?
It's a scenario that has played out more times than I can count: One minute, my cat, Olive, is playfully rubbing against me while I'm watching Dawson's Creek; the next, she's biting my hand! Seriously, what gives? Why does my cat bite me? And more specifically, why does my cat bite me gently out of nowhere? Does she love me or not?
For Reasons We Don’t Get, Michael Bay Is Making “Skibidi Toilet” Movie & TV Show
As a generation raised on the early internet, Millennials enjoyed their fair share of weird online nonsense. Homestar Runner. Salad Fingers. eBaum’s World. I Can Has Cheezburger. But we’re confident saying that when it comes to the internet, our Gen Alpha children have truly outweirded us. And now, it is our grim duty to report that your 12 year old’s favorite meme — “Skibidi Toilet” — might just have a future on the big screen. Apparently, Michael Bay (yes, that Michael Bay) is working with former Paramount Pictures president Adam Goodman to develop the web series for TV and film.
Home Depot's Halloween 2024 Drop Is The Perfect Vintage, Spooky Mix
We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. The Halloween season doesn’t last long enough if you ask me, so I am forever ready to spread the holiday out a bit — which usually means starting at the end of summer to get all of my spooky feels. The thing is, once Halloween’s over, it’s a sprint through Thanksgiving and Christmas, and there’s just not enough time to do all of the things like pumpkin patches and spooky movie marathons and wandering through Home Depot’s Halloween aisle.
Dad Seeks Advice After His Tween Daughters Take His Place In Bed
Losing bedroom real estate to kids is just part of being a parent. For many of us, we grow used to sleeping with one butt cheek hanging off the mattress as our toddler — who came in at midnight after a nightmare — starfishes in the middle, blithely unconcerned for our plight. Fortunately, it’s a stage, like any stage, that eventually ends... but not for one dad on Reddit. In a post on r/Parenting, Redditor u/FlopShanoobie sought advice on getting his bed back from his tween daughters.
Can Your Hair Really “Get Used” To Shampoo? Experts Explain That Dirty Feeling
If your scalp is itchy and irritated, or your hair feels weighed down and greasy, you might be wondering if your shampoo has just decided to quit its day job. That never-truly-clean feeling is super frustrating, especially when it starts interfering with how your hair looks or how you feel about yourself.
An American Mom Living In Japan Shares Her Son's School Supply Haul
Whether or not you want to admit it, the back-to-school season will be here before you know it! For some moms, school is just a mere couple of weeks away, and that means school supply shopping will be in full swing! For one mom living overseas, that whole process looks a little different.
Lake Street Dive Frontwoman Rachael Price Shares A Day In The Life Of Touring With A Toddler
Lake Street Dive frontwoman Rachael Price gave her fans a glimpse into what a day in the life looks like when you’re on tour and also a mom! The indie, multi-genre band just released their new album, Good Together, in June 2024 and is subsequently on a U.S. tour to promote the album, traveling all over the country on a tour bus.
Barbie Introduces First Blind Doll & Black Barbie With Down Syndrome
If you have a Barbie kid in your life then you’re probably familiar with the Fashionista line. These are not your mother’s Barbies — or your Barbies, for that matter. Since 2016, the Fashionista dolls have offered kids more than 175 looks in a variety of skin tones, eye colors, hair colors and textures, body types, disabilities and fashions. There are dolls that use wheelchairs (my daughter’s hands-down favorite), dolls with vitiligo and alopecia, and others with prosthetics and hearing aids all to better reflecting the wide world of kids playing with them. And now, Barbie is introducing the first blind Barbie and the first Black Barbie with Down syndrome in their latest Fashionista lineup.
Rugrats Is The Original Bluey & Y'all Need To Give Stu & Didi Some Respect
If I mention the name Bluey in a group of parents and kids, more often than not, it’s an adult who will pipe up, “Oh my God, I LOVE Bluey” before a kid does. For many legitimate reasons, Bluey has become a cartoon beloved by both children and parents, and it’s incredibly easy to see why. The show is funny and smart; it holds a lot of emotions; it gets you right in the feels and makes you feel seen — it’s just good. But when people talk about Bluey, they always say something like, “It’s so much better than the shows we grew up with.”
8 Romance Novels Where The Protagonists Aren't 25
We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. Much to my delight, I recently opened a romance and learned that the characters were in their early 40s. As I slide quickly out of my late 30s, I’m reallllly noticing just how many protagonists in the genre are in their early 30s, their late 20s, or even their early 20s. It’s beginning to feel a bit like there’s some sort of Logan’s Run situation happening for main characters over the age of 37.
Please Don’t Parent My Kids Like They’re Your Own
I was at the beach with a group of moms. It’s a group in which we are casual friends, and I feel like a bit of an outsider. I marveled at everyone else’s ability to function like a little family, with each woman doting on the others’ kids — answering their questions, shaking out their towels, and tending to their newly scraped knees. They each brought their own beach bags, but snacks and supplies became communal as all the kids transitioned to the ocean and then back to the sand.
Bath & Body Works’ 2024 Halloween Collection Is Here With 3 Spooky New Scents
Summer’s end is creeping up on us, and sure, it’ll be sad to say goodbye to things like beach days, pool parties, and not having to wake up at an unholy hour to sit in the car-rider drop-off line. But the calendar gods giveth and the calendar gods taketh away — and as they taketh away the sunniest season, they giveth the coziest: fall. Fortunately, with fall comes the highly anticipated annual release of Bath & Body Works’ Halloween collection.
Parents Are Sharing Their Higher-Than-Ever School Supply Shopping Receipts For 2024
As a bookish kid, going back-to-school shopping was one of my very favorite things to do at the end of the summer. There was a simple joy in picking out new notebooks, pens, pencils, folders and, if you were really lucky, a new Trapper Keeper. But for some parents on TikTok, the cost of back-to-school supplies has gotten out of hand, and they’re sharing their receipts.
Pottery Barn Kids’ Halloween Costumes Are Here & OMG They’re So Freaking Cute
Yeah, sure, we’re still sweating out the summer, squeezing in the last days of playing in the sprinkler and staying up late before school starts in August. But stores are beginning to roll out their Halloween pajamas, decorations, and costumes already, and Pottery Barn Kids’ Halloween costumes are looking especially adorable this year. In previous years, their baby costumes (specifically, a very fuzzy hot pink flamingo) have gone viral, and we predict this year will be much the same.
Wait, Does Disney World Really Have a Dress Code? Here’s The Deal
The idea of anything being free in Disney World is almost laughable. The theme park is known for being a budget buster, whether your kid convinces you to break the bank on bubble guns and Mickey Pretzels or you splurge on Lightning Lanes to skip long lines. And it's because of this mentality that a certain type of video has started going viral on social media: videos where guests flaunt free outfits they've gotten from Disney World gift shops because their previous outfits had broken Disney World's dress code.
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