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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.
Get Ready For The Bridgerton Glow-Up, Because Benedict Will Lead Season 4
Dearest gentle readers! Lady Whistledown has some news for Bridgerton fans!. Season 3 may have just wrapped up a few months ago (leaving us all with a Pollin hangover), but we’re already being fed some super exciting news from Netflix and the Bridgerton crew for all those wondering if there will be a Season 4 of Bridgerton, including who the season will be about and a possible release date.
This Former Pro Athlete Broke Down The Facts About Your Kid's Actual Athletic Potential
A former pro athlete, a coach, and an owner of Next Level Athletes Nate Daniels posted a now-viral TikTok, hoping to reach parents who may see some potential in their kid’s athletic prowess but aren’t quite sure if they should go all in. “Is my child an elite...
'I Brought My Female Coworker Into Bed With My Husband'
This week in the Scary Mommy Confessional, reader submissions range from the tame to the downright spicy. Want a window into what other moms are thinking about their in-laws, friend break-ups, dating experiences, and, well, threesomes? Read on. Scary Mommy Confessions are a tried-and-true part of what makes our site...
Joey Fatone Is Trying To Remember What It’s Like To Be A Teenager
Are you ready to feel the oldest you’ve ever felt? N’Sync’s Joey Fatone’s oldest daughter, Briahna, is 23 years old. (We’ll give you all a moment; perhaps take this time to schedule a mammogram or stay limber with some gentle stretches.) He also has a 14-year-old, Kloey, and, in more than two decades of parenting two kids, he’s learned everything he doesn’t know.
I Finally Tried The Viral TikTok Overnight Collagen Mask — & Wow
We may receive a portion of sales if you purchase a product through a link in this article. If I started counting the number of viral TikTok products out there, we’d be here all day. And I won’t lie; I’ve tried a lot of them, evidenced by the receipts cluttering up my inbox. In most cases, they lie in the corner of my drawer unused. However, a few favorites have become part of my daily routine — shoutout to the Glow Recipe’s Watermelon Dew Drops or Korea’s flat spatula hack. In fact, most of my makeup secrets come from TikTok.
I Wasn't Prepared For Popularity Woes From My 2nd Grader
As a parent, I’ve always been aware that the problems my daughters come to me with would start to feel big at some point. Their troubles would progress from simple things like, “My friend wouldn’t share their toy with me,” to more complex worries like, “Why doesn’t my friend like me anymore?” I knew it would happen; I just didn’t think it would start as soon as second grade.
10 Moms Share How They Split Responsibilities With Their Partners To Get “Me Time”
For years, Martha — a mom of two living in New Jersey — would watch her husband head off to play tennis every Sunday morning with the satisfaction of knowing she was the reason. “I found him a group to play with because I knew he needed it,” she says. “But it was years of him saying ‘What’s your tennis’ before I started my Saturday morning upholstery class.”
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