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Greg Sullivan
October 31, 2025
"Should grandmas be the ones on the road, or should families pick everything up and drive to her?"
By Tod Perry
When the holidays roll around, it’s time for families to decide where they will meet to celebrate. For the most part, parents with younger kids dread packing their bags and traveling to a family member’s house where things aren’t set up for young children. You fumble around setting up the pack ‘n plays, can’t find your bottle brush, and freak out because the electrical sockets aren’t child-proof.
However, many grandparents aren’t keen on enduring the mental and physical strain of traveling at an older age. So, who’s right? Grandma Jan, founder of Grandma Camp and a TikTok influencer who shares fun ideas for grandparents and grandkids, argued that parents should pack up their kids and visit Grandma.
“Okay, so, here's the debate: families say, ‘Grandma, why don't you come visit us?’ But let's be honest, Grandma's house is where the traditions are, the cookies are, and all of the toys are,” Grandma Jan begins.
The “pudding mit gabel” craze began in Germany, but its joyful spirit is spreading worldwide.
By Heather Wake
Are you ready for something absurdly fun and wholesomely sweet?
If you’ve spent any time on TikTok lately, you might have seen crowds of German teens gathered in parks, each holding a small cup of pudding and, curiously, a fork. A countdown begins, there’s a rhythmic tapping of metal on plastic lids, and then everyone digs in.
Welcome to “pudding mit gabel,” which literally means “pudding with a fork.”
The concept of “pudding mit gabel” is simple: People meet up, armed with pudding cups and forks, and eat together. That’s it. There’s no competition, no sponsor, no deeper message. Just a group of people enjoying dessert and, usually, laughing about how silly the whole thing is.
A duck is entitled to change its mind. 🥶
By Sarah Watts
Pets support our mental health every single day—now, it’s our turn to care for them. In partnership with Nulo, we’re celebrating Pet Wellness Month this October by highlighting the small, meaningful ways pet parents fuel their fur babies’ happiness and health.
The innovative approach to behavioral intervention seems to be helping in multiple ways.
By Annie Reneau
School detention has long been a method of managing—or at least attempting to manage—student behavior, the idea being that forcing kids who clearly don't love being in school to spend even more hours being bored out of their gourd in a classroom might make them change their ways. The efficacy of detention has long been debated among educators and administrators, but one high school in Maine has started providing an alternative to traditional detention that has people buzzing.
Morse High School in Bath, Maine, gives students who have broken a detention-worthy rule a choice: Spend 3 hours sitting around doing nothing in a classroom or join the school counselor for a 3.5-mile hike. For some, that might sound more like a reward than a punishment, but there's an intention behind the hike option that makes some sense from a behavioral perspective.