Prizes for potty training. Cakes celebrating baby’s first steps. Back-to-school theme breakfasts. “Bye-bye binky” balloons. Parties for growing, or losing, teeth.
If it seems like parents are celebrating every tiny triumph these days, well, many are.
Inchstones — like milestones but, as the name implies, smaller — were predicted to be one of the top parenting trends of 2024 by Pinterest’s annual trends forecast. In an analysis of its data from September 2021 through August 2023, the popular platform cited trends like a 90 per cent increase in searches for end-of-year school parties, the same increase in searches for monthly milestone ideas and a 40 per cent rise in “first tooth party” searches.
“In 2024,
