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Eric Pfeiffer
December 05, 2024
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"I had no idea it felt like this."
Parents today share responsibilities more equally than in past generations, but studies show childcare still falls disproportionately on women's shoulders. Some families choose one parent to take on the lion's share of childrearing and/or domestic duties, and if that works, great. Other couples work similar hours and have to figure out how to equally split home duties, but however the household is structured, mothers most often tend to be the "default parent" and household manager.
That means it's mostly moms that are constantly thinking about managing the million little details of parenting. The big things like feeding, bathing, transporting, teaching life lessons and such are fairly easy to share equitably. But the invisible work—keeping track of routine doctor and dentist appointments, communicating with teachers can caregivers, keeping extended family updated, figuring out what clothes to keep and get rid of as kids outgrow them, keeping the family calendar up-to-date, etc.—that's all part of the "mental load" of parenting that moms tend to carry, often without their partners even being aware they're doing it.
"Three beautiful identical triplet boys starting their NICU journey 💙💙💙"
A family in England welcomed an early Christmas present. Shannon, 29, and Ace Page, 28, welcomed surprise identical triplets through in vitro fertilization (IVF) after first being told by doctors that they were only expecting twins. "Life has changed so much since the boys were born as they are now our main priority and all that matters now," Shannon tells Upworthy. "It feels amazing to finally be parents, especially going from feeling like we were never going to be parents to having 3 beautiful boys."
The couple from Wincanton in Somerset, tried to conceive naturally for years before they had their first embryo implanted in March 2024. They began documenting their pregnancy journey on TikTok. During their 7-week scan, where they were told by doctors that twins were on the way.
There are only a handful of people in the crowd but they are having the time of their lives.
Every generation has songs that help define the era. And without question, MGMT’s synthy, upbeat pop jam “Kids” helped define the early 2000s. Its playful irreverence matched the sort of unbounded optimism felt in a time just before the internet—and all its consequences—would change the world forever.
And this is why people are giddy over finding an unearthed clip of MGMT playing the hit song before it became a hit. It’s taking them right back to that simpler pre-internet time.
"Don’t let nonsense like this get to you."
Over her 20-plus years as one of America's most prominent female sportscasters, Erin Andrews has endured a terrible amount of sexism from fans, athletes, and people in her profession. Sports blogs have called her "Sideline Barbie" or "Sideline Princess" and she was driven to tears after interviewing a "nasty" player on the Buccaneers.
In 2016, she was awarded $55 million in a lawsuit after she was secretly recorded in the nude through a peephole at a Nashville hotel by a stalker. A forensic psychologist who worked on the case said that the incident gave Andrews a "mild" case of PTSD. Even though the world has become more accepting of female sportscasters over the past decade, Andrews still has to deal with people on X commenting on her appearance.