From viral TikToks to Instagram moms, Motherly brings you funny, relatable diversions you didn’t know you needed.
"Dream big, baby girl. In other news, might be time to turn off the @wickedmovie at home."
“My life has gotten 10 times easier and, for the first time in a long time, I feel like I have space to breathe.”
“Trying to help mom look for a size 14 dress… that was the closest I came to a scavenger hunt,” he jokes.
“I know that it's just a season. I know that next summer is gonna look different. I'm gonna have a one-year-old running around that will be able to do a lot more.”
“I realized how important those tangible affirmations are to him. So I’ve made it a point over the last 15+ years to write things down in addition to telling him.”
“To not just be a better father—be a better husband, somebody better in the community.”
“Whenever me or my siblings would ever say anything negative about ourselves...my mom would look at us and be like, ‘Don’t speak about my daughter like that.'”
"The core memory I didn't know I needed 🤣😩😆"
A jaw-dropping 234 times—and that was just between 7 a.m. and 8 p.m.
“There’s also an expectation among men that we handle our own stuff and we handle our own problems.”
In the clip, Kenny coaches her daughter through a pretend play scenario: how to introduce friends who don’t know each other yet.
“My husband and I did everything we could to celebrate her new 'do... and continued to tell her how special she was, no matter the length of her hair and that being different is cool.”
“The cutest little slumber party with his 2 besties🥹 🐶.”
“I hadn’t realized that I had this big hole in my life, and that’s what it was—a diploma.”
Fire crews wouldn’t arrive for several more minutes, but Ramir didn’t wait. He knew exactly what needed to be done.
“...when the grandmother’s shower rivals the shower for the actual parents, that’s where it crosses a line.”
“Since when is vacation a competition to see how bada-- you can be?”
One tiny paw helping carry the load.
It’s raw. It’s funny. It’s painfully accurate. And it’s giving thousands of moms a moment of deeply-needed validation.
“He has poop all over his back, so be prepared.”