5 modern parenting trends we’re more than ready to ditch in 2025 [Video]

What a year 2024 was for parents. What a … time.

Sure, there were some positive moments in the world of parenting news that had us cheering. Bluey made us weep happy tears. The U.S. surgeon general’s warning about parental stress helped many of us feel less alone. Roblox added more parental controls. Hooray!

But if you are currently in the position of raising small humans, this year you also may have found yourself:

• Paying more for your tween’s skin-care routine than your own.
• Wondering if your gentle parenting is, perhaps, too gentle; if your free-range parenting is going to get you arrested; if your lighthouse parenting is … um … you may have found yourself googling “lighthouse parenting.”
• Feeling like a failure because you don’t bake your own cereal and roast your own nut butters; because you failed to throw your child a “tooth fairy party” and a back-to-school bash; because your two-year-old doesn’t sleep 14 hours straight in their own …