When my preschooler was littler, we watched hours and hours of Little Baby Bum on Netflix. It’s a British nursery rhyme show that my little zoned in on like some kind of zombie. With my second, they’re both completely obsessed with Cocomelon, both on Netflix and on YouTube Kids. Image Credit: iStock It’s similar, with...
They say age is just a number, and you’re only as old as you feel, but when it comes to pregnancy and childbearing, there’s definitely a belief that it’s best left to the young. This mother chose to buck the norms, though, and agreed to carry her own grandchild at the age of 61 so that her son could experience parenthood for...
Kids are funny creatures. They don’t know a whole lot about the world, but in some ways, they’re wiser than the adults around them. Not in these ways, though, because there are definitely some totally weird and silly things all kids do for some odd reason – and chances are, you did each of these, too. 11. Draw on their...
Just like every person is different, each and every kid has their own personality and quirks. That said, down deep at our cores we’re all human – and that means some behaviors just seem to happen to all of us at one time or another. And during childhood, I would venture to guess every last one of you has dabbled in these 10 goofy...
If you’re a person of a certain age – a person who has children of her own, now, and probably has a cabinet full of your grandma’s hand-me-downs of her own – then there’s a good chance you had a standard issue grandmother. Sure, they had different backgrounds and stories and personalities, but they all had the same...
We’re all getting older, and maybe we’re starting to look more like our parents. We’re starting to see the points-of-view the older people in our lives espoused all those years ago. And we’re starting to say things that used to make us cringe. If we were lucky enough to inherit treasures from our grandparents, some of these...
One of the worst things that happens to you as a child is that moment when you do something embarrassing, and not only are you dealing with that, you’re also dealing with all of the adults in the room chuckling like you’re a mixture of adorable and unbearably awkward. You know what I’m talking about, right? If you’re not...
On the internet, parenting memes abound. If you ask me – or any other parent out there – that’s definitely a good thing. They make us laugh and they remind us that we’re all in this together, and if that’s something you need today, these 14 memes are ready and waiting! 14. This is serious business. It was probably...
There are days when you’re so exhausted from dealing with kids and work and life that you can barely see straight, and on those days, even your coffee needs a little help. It’s a sad state of affairs when you can’t drink yourself into coherence, but if you’re having one of those days, we suggest trying these 13 memes on for...
Parenting is hard, and it’s rewarding, but even on its worst days, it can be funny – and often, that last bit is what lets in a ray of light at just the right moment. If you’re sitting in the dark right now – perhaps in your pantry shoving the last of the Oreos into your mouth while your kids write on the walls –...