Busy Mommy Media There are few things more humbling than asking your teenager for costume input and getting shut down every time. You pitch an idea. Veto. You pitch another one. Also veto. Eventually you stop pitching and just wait to see what the group chat decides. That's basically how this year's costume roundup happened. In my newest post, I'm rounding up group costume ideas for teens that don't require five kids to match, because that fight is not one you're winning. The trick that...

Busy Mommy Media There are few things harder as a parent than watching your teenager go through something painful and realizing you can’t fix it for them. Our instinct is to jump in. Give advice. Solve the problem. Tell them what we think they should do. But as our kids get older, sometimes that isn’t what they need from us. Sometimes our job is simply to make sure they know they don’t have to do the hard thing alone. In my newest video, I’m talking about what support can look like when your...

Busy Mommy Media Shopping for teens is weirdly hard. They have opinions. Lots of them. And the things you think are cool are sometimes very much not cool. 😅 So I pulled together some of the best tech gifts for teens this year, including gifts at a bunch of different price points and some things I honestly wouldn’t mind getting myself. I put all of my favorites into a new video so you can see what’s actually worth looking at before you start your holiday shopping. 👉 Watch: Best Tech Gifts for...