It was great, until it wasn't.
| | I'm So Done Listening To Instagram Parenting Advice | | Has anybody else's Instagram feed come to feel a bit like a bombardment of advice from well-meaning but impossibly polished experts? Do this, do that, all presented via highly professional infographics. It's… a lot.
When she first discovered all these accounts, Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman felt like they were a gift: "Who needed to read through pages of parenting books when all that knowledge was newly distilled into digestible nuggets of wisdom?" But slowly, they started to overwhelm her: "For a while there, their advice felt generous. And then, it began to smother me." Nowadays, she's taking a new approach. Check it out.
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| | | | | | EMPTY NEST-ISH | My First Born Is Going To College, And I'm Not Ready | | It looms on the horizon from the moment you bring your kids home from the hospital: the day they move out. Jazmyn Simon writes that she recently found herself awake at 2:30 AM, tearfully reckoning with this milestone. She warns readers that day is coming, and it's going to be hard: "You will shed tears. You will look at them and see a glimpse of the baby you once held in your arms and it will feel like it's too soon to send them on their way." Here's what she wants you to remember in the moment. | |
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