Can you tell if someone is a parent without them actually telling you that they are one? That’s the question at the heart of a recent trend of viral parenting TikToks. The trend is a pretty incredible way of showing how sometimes words don’t need to be exchanged for fellow parents to recognize within each other the myriad of struggles, changes and joys that having kids can bring.
TikTok user @mommacusses, or Gwenna Laithland — who has also founded a website with the name Momma Cusses — started the trend, according to Parents. Read More...
One of the first things parents who find out they're expecting do is start to narrow down baby names. For some, narrowing down that list is easy, while others, like Spanish royalty Sofia Palazuelo and her husband, Fernando Fitz-James Stuart, the 17th Duke of Huéscar, might find it more difficult. The royal couple “narrowed” down, so to speak, a rather lengthy name for their baby girl — only for the government to step in and say nope! Read More...
Brittany Hightower was a 22-year-old woman from Texas with sickle cell anaemia and was the founder of the non-profit organization “Slay the Sickle Cycle.” Her posts were mostly about “stop mental abuse,” and because she was a tiktoker, she was well-known in her neighbourhood. She participated in their forums and frequently took part in their live streams on mental health issues as the founder of Sickle Cell. In addition, she maintains the page @slay. Read More...
