There are plenty of things I love about having little kids – the laughs, the snuggles, the outright sweetness – but I would be lying if I said I wasn’t also looking forward to the days when I can banter with my kids . These parents have reached that point, and their text conversations are hilarious – just check out these...
Entitlement is one of the toughest areas of parenting to navigate for some of us. We want to give our kids all of the things we wanted but our parents couldn’t afford – and we want them to be able to be kids, and not worry about things like money. That said, we have to balance that with teaching them about personal responsibility and...
Most days we’re so thrilled with our decision to become parents. Our little humans are adorable and funny, and honestly, they give us something to get excited about during our own middle age. We all know there are some days when nothing goes right, everything is hard, and we’re thinking we’re definitely not up to the task –...
There are certainly things that no one tells you about being a parent until you learn it for yourself, but I’m not sure if this is on purpose, or if there are things you’ll just never understand until you’re standing in those white New Balance sneaks yourself. If you’re listening, there are parents out there who...
I would guess that a majority of parents are out there every day doing the best they can for their kids, and not only that, they actually enjoy being parents, too. That doesn’t mean the days or nights are easy, though, or that sometimes we don’t feel like we’re about to lose our minds – or that we can’t still laugh...
Every family has their own traditions, their own quirks, and their own specific way of doing things that no one else is really privy to – and because we spend almost all of our time as young kids with only our family, we often don’t find out until later that other families don’t do things the same way. Which is also when people...
When we’re kids living at home, our parents and siblings are pretty much our entire world. We believe what they tells us, we mimic what they eat and say and enjoy, and honestly, we assume that what goes on inside those four walls is pretty much what goes on inside the four walls of our friends’ houses, too. Once we get old and start to...
Adulthood is one of those experiences that comes for all of us – sooner or later – and that, like most things about life, isn’t exactly what we expected. When we’re younger, especially as teenagers, it sounds so great to be able to live on your own and to not have anyone telling you where to go, what to eat, how to act, or...
When you’re a kid, being an adult seems like the best thing in the world. You can watch what you want, eat what you want, go to bed when you want, and basically no one tells you what to do all the dang time, The truth is that even if you can technically do what you want, all of the reasons your parents wouldn’t let you do them as a...
Most people realize that picking a name for a human being is a huge responsibility and treat it as such. That said, even if you’re seriously considering your baby’s name, there are tons of options – a family name, something popular, something unique, something that reflects pop culture at the time…it can be...