Headphones & Hormones

They've outgrown the highchairs, they can't hear a word you say, and you don't know whose hormones are worse, yours or theirs. Here's my take on parenting teens as a perimenopausal single mom in 2025.

Category: Headphones and Hormones

  • There’s a meme floating around that says, “People don’t realize dating a drug dealer when you’re a teenager is key character development.” It cracks me up. At 18, my boyfriend owned a tattoo parlor and drove a stick-shift RX-7 with a “Barely Street Legal” decal on the windshield, so I can sort of relate. He…

  • I will enjoy QUALITY TIME with them this summer if it’s the last thing I do! I just bought beach chairs that I really can’t afford. My budget right now is STRICTLY bills, gas and groceries, and sticking to it is harder than opening a jar of Talenti.  But I look at my new Tommy…

  • We need to stop giving a platform to sick people… I just watched a clip of some misogynistic prick (who doesn’t deserve a platform) publicly lecture a 14-year-old girl on why she should go to school for her “MRS degree” instead of political journalism. Since my parents did not deeply fail me, I had to…

  • I’m pretty sure middle school is the seventh circle of hell.  I know the expression goes, “Little Kids, little problems; big kids, big problems,” but someone could have warned me it would be more like, “Medium kids, huge problems.”  And when I say huge, I mean COLOSSAL. Everything is a the biggest deal ever.  For…