TikTok Is Not the Place to Go for Sound Parenting Advice

One of the best decisions I may have ever made as a parent was to ignore “professional” parenting advice. The plethora of books and theories overwhelmed me when I first became a mom; instead, I chose to skip it all. Five children later, I have no regrets. But today, even I can barely escape bad parenting advice. It bombards me on social media in the form of what has loosely come to be known as “TikTok parenting.”

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