Is there ever a right time to start a family? Becoming a parent these days, writes Rachel Wiseman in the recent book What Are Children For?, can seem “less like a transition and more like ...
When author Edan Lepucki’s son was in the fifth grade, his Los Angeles school went on lockdown. Through his Gizmo watch, he left a voicemail for his mom that pains Lepucki to remember even now.
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If you are parenting your way through the first part of the 21st century in America, you may regularly tap into an always humming and sometimes throbbing collective anxiety. There’s political ...
As we learned in “Pool,” you’re going to want to make sure you’ve remembered everything you need. Because you can have more fun when you’re not hungry, bored, & missing sunscreen.Disney+ ...
Halloween is the fishbowl parenting event of the year, really, and I’m already dreading the social dynamics. My kid wants to trick-or-treat with a big group of 7-year-olds, and their parents who ...
I turn away from my husband and his snoring, using my back to try to block out the light from my phone. It is my favorite time of day: 10 p.m., in bed, secretly scrolling my favorite app, NYTimes ...
The text was five words long. Did you have an abortion? The text was from my ten-year-old daughter, Hannah. It was the middle of the afternoon, the middle of the week. Early spring sunlight poured ...
Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...
When Trump won in 2016, there was a groundswell movement to protect women's rights. Suddenly there were seemingly endless books and think pieces about where women go from there, and how to raise ...