Issue #15: Our poor brains were never meant to hold this much parenting advice

when you have no idea what you're doing AND you're crushing it

Throwback to the cozy newborn days that I adored so much! And when I really started to feel in my element.

The other day, I opened my phone and watched a mom’s “day in the life” with her toddler. He ate star-shaped rice, chopped veggies, and meatballs, all tucked into an adorable bento box. They had a cozy bedtime routine complete with a bath, bedtime stories, white noise, and blackout curtains.

Then I noticed the caption was written in Vietnamese.

And I thought, wow. How wild is it that I can peek into someone's day across the world while sitting here on my couch?

This access we have... it’s amazing, right?

We get to see how other mothers mother. All. Over. The. Globe.

AND also… our poor brains.

We've been living in this age of information overload for quite some time now, but for my fellow millennials, we remember what it was like before smartphones and social media — so it's a weird mix of nostalgia and whiplash. We grew up when kids actually knocked on doors to see if we could come out to play, and now, here we are raising our own kids in a world where convenience is king, and information is constant.