Gen X women are determined to leave a legacy for future generations.

Gen X women are getting loud about perimenopause. It’s time someone calls out the b.s.

This reality bites, and we’re not gonna take it anymore.

By Annie Reneau

For time immemorial, approximately half the human population has gone through “the change,” the mid-life transition from monthly menstruation to menopause known as “perimenopause.” One might assume that a years-long, enormously disruptive process that affects nearly every woman on earth would’ve been at the top of the priority list when modern medical research began.

Alas, nope. Not even close. But at long last, a whole generation of women is collectively raising our voices to say, “WTF?!?”

Millions of Gen X women are in the thick of perimenopause, with its 100-some-odd symptoms that range from the expected hot flashes to the unexpected frozen shoulder, itchy ears, joint pain, hair thinning, brain fog, panic attacks, weight gain, low-level rage, and more. It’s like a daily lottery of random phenomena that make you ask, “Am I dying or is this normal?”

It's not just nostalgia. Our childhood cartoons were better.

Mom swaps out her baby’s modern cartoons for 90s classics and the results are fascinating

The biggest surprise? His sleep improved.

By Heather Wake

Nobody needs convincing that the cartoons of yesteryear just hit different. They are miles away from the noisy, ultra colorful, fast-paced (read: overstimulating) shows that a kid might watch today. And, it turns out, those classic cartoons might just be superior for getting kids to actually relax.

This was a discovery made by one mom (Lauren, aka @mamasandmesses) when she introduced her toddler to old school shows like Bear and the Big Blue House, Arthur, Dragon Tales, and more. Her grand experiment led to some pretty fascinating results.

For one thing, she noted that while her child enjoyed watching these programs, there was no adverse reaction when she turned them off. “He didn’t fight me or get upset, he just went back to playing!”

Generation Jones explains their major cultural differences with Boomers

“Think of us as a generation that got the tail end of the party but had to clean up the mess.”

By Emily Shiffer

Generation Jones, people born from 1954 to 1965, is considered a ‘micro-generation’ between Boomers and Generation X. Though typically lumped in with Boomers, there are some pretty distinct differences between them.

In an online community of Generation Jones-ers, a member named @WalkingHorse, prompted those in Generation Jones to discuss how their upbringing differed from Boomers in a post titled “What is and who are Generation Jones. Step inside…”.

“We’re often described as pragmatic idealists, raised on big dreams but tempered by economic recessions and a sense of lowered expectations compared to the Boomers’ post-war prosperity,” they wrote. “Think of us a generation that got the tail end of the party but had to clean up the mess.”

The name Tiffany goes way back to Tiphaine Raguenel, who lived in Mont Saint Michel in the 1300s.

‘The Tiffany Problem’ explains why people think historically accurate things are wrong

Anachronisms aren’t always what they seem.

By Annie Reneau

Depending on what generation you belong to, when you hear the name Tiffany, you might think of the famous jewelry store, the teen singer from the 80s or the much-less-in-the-spotlight daughter of President Trump. Most likely, you don’t think of a woman who lived in the Middle Ages.

In fact, if you were listening to an audiobook set in medieval times and the narrator introduced a character named Tiffany, you’d probably get yanked right out of the story as your brain would say, “Wait, why is there a Tiffany in this story? Isn’t that a much more modern name?”

It’s actually not, which is exactly why The Tiffany Problem is called The Tiffany Problem.