As a thirty-something with no kids but a wealth of cats, I might complain, but I have it pretty easy. Despite the incessant vet bills, taking care of a cat is a lot easier and somehow a lot cheaper than raising a human child. A friend of mine shared an alarming statistic with her Instagram friends recently - the lifetime cost of raising a child here in the United States, as of 2022, is estimated at a whopping $272,049. That's a staggering number, one that makes me feel like I'm definitely never…

When you're a kid almost everything feels like it's the end of the world. When I was 4 I became absolutely convinced that the “cool” way to eat pizza was upside down. Cheese facing plate. Ridiculous. The first time my mom took me for pizza after this idea got into my head, I attempted this method between sips of Hawaiian Punch. Once she noticed what was happening she freaked out, grabbed the slice, and tried to get me to eat it the right way. I had a meltdown so explosive that she refused to se…

They clearly know something we don't

“Give me your tired, your poor, your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, the wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tossed to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!” While Emma Lazarus may not have been speaking of weary parents in her 1883 sonnet, she could have been. The plights that child-rearers face are real: exhaustion, frustration, depression , and sometimes even anger. While these experiences could potentially bring out the worst in people, the…

This is dedicated to all the struggling parents out there

There are a lot of things you expect to find in a child's backpack, this is not usually one of them.

An adorable nightmare

Parents share the woes of raising little maniacs

We salute you.