Tag: social media

Family Vacations: An Exercise in Accepting Reality

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I don’t love to admit this, but vacations are one element of parenting that I will sometimes lie about. When I tell friends or...

Living Authentically In A Social Media World

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What does it mean to live authentically in the age of social media? People used to live their lives behind closed doors. Before the age...

A Moment to Mosaic (Thanks TikTok)

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For all you hip and rad moms out there who use TikTok, you may have seen the recent trend called "mosaic." It was going...

Stop the Spread of Fake News: No One is Sex Trafficking...

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Please stop sharing social media posts about stranger abduction for sex trafficking from public places. These posts are not true. They are urban legends...

Top 8 Insta-Mamas: Instagram Moms to Follow in 2020

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I'll admit it . . . I'm a social media junkie. I'm the mom who is constantly posting photos of my kiddos, our travels,...

Can I Post Your Pic? Posting Pictures of Kids on Social...

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A few weeks ago on my favorite podcast (hey, Armchair Expert!) I heard Busy Philipps explain the social media policy she uses with her...

Mom Goals: Fruit Loops, TV Time, and Other Things That Aren’t...

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The other day I was watching a mom with her kids and thinking about how “put together” she seemed. On that same day I...

Thinking Outside the (Facebook Status Update) Box

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Over the last few months, I’ve been trying to clean up my Facebook account. I don’t mean "clean up" like there is anything in...

The Fun and Influence of Social Media: Accept the Fake Challenge

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Four or five years ago, my aunt started a social media challenge. She tagged a couple of her friends in her photo of herself...

Stop the Presses: Why I Get My News From Facebook

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Do you watch the news regularly? Do you pick up a newspaper every day and read more than just the headlines? Do you have...