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| “These past seven weeks really opened up my eyes on how the household has actually ran, and 110% of that is because of my wife.” |
| Participating in paternity leave offers fathers so much more than an opportunity to bond with their new kids. It also allows them to help around the house and take on domestic responsibilities that many new mothers have to face alone…while also tending to a newborn. |
| All in all, it enables couples to handle the daunting new chapter as a team, making it less stressful on both parties. Or at least equally stressful on both parties. Democracy! |
| TikTok creator and dad Caleb Remington, from the popular account @ustheremingtons, confesses that for baby number one, he wasn’t able to take a “single day of paternity leave.” |
| This time around, for baby number two, Remington had the privilege of taking seven weeks off (to be clear—his employer offered four weeks, and he used an additional three weeks of PTO). |
| The time off changed Remington’s entire outlook on parenting, and his insights are something all parents could probably use. |
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| She’s a little afraid to leave her cabin. |
| A lot of folks would love to trade lives with Christine Kesteloo. Her husband is the Chief Engineer on a cruise ship, so she gets to live on the boat pretty much for free as the “wife on board.” For Christine, life is a lot like living on a permanent vacation. |
| “I live on a cruise ship for half the year with my husband, and it’s often as glamorous as it sounds,” she told Insider. “After all, I don’t cook, clean, make my bed, do laundry or pay for food.“ |
| Living an all-inclusive lifestyle seems like paradise, but it has some drawbacks. Having access to all-you-can-eat food all day long can really have an effect on one’s waistline. Kesteloo admits that living on a cruise ship takes a lot of self-discipline because the temptation is always right under her nose. |
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| “That’s what we need more of in this world.” |
| Fame comes with a lot of challenges, but it also comes with some pretty obvious perks. There’s the money that frequently follows fame, of course, but there’s also the special treatment people automatically offer you. |
| Some famous folks might revel in that special treatment and some might even express gratitude for it. But occasionally, you find a celebrity who refuses it altogether. |
| Take basketball legend Shaquille O’Neal, for instance. |
| Shaq has been known to share his wealth with the average Joe without any expectation, just out of the goodness of his heart. He also has a refreshingly down-to-earth attitude about his own importance compared to other people, which he shared in an interview. |
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| Privacy and consent are huge factors along with the rise of AI. |
| In the late 2000s there was an explosion of mommy bloggers, suddenly moms who cared for their children full time were able to have an outlet sharing relatable content about their motherhood. The bonus to this was brands wanted to give them money to promote things they were likely already using or wanting to try anyway. Nobody really knew what would come of it so more people jumped on board before the phase fizzled out. |
| This was still in the early days of the internet, when social media wasn’t really popular yet and no one really understood the implications of exposing your children’s details online. As social media sites picked up interest and people were becoming millionaires from YouTube, mommy bloggers morphed into “mommy vlogs,” “family vlogs” and “momfluencers.” |
| Given the deeper understanding of how the internet works along with privacy and safety concerns, some parents are opting to just avoid sharing images of their children online. The content is still the same, just minus the visual of the child you hear in the background. |
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