A new generation discovers the poet laureate of puberty.
After 30 years, I want to tell her the truth, but I don’t know how.
Whether they share their joys or their struggles, parents just can’t win on social media.
She hasn’t been a great parent to me, and I don’t want her repeating those patterns with my future kids.
The “every family for itself” approach to child care in the U.S. means parents’ options for three months of the year are shelling out for expensive camps, fighting for limited slots in affordable programs, or nothing.
Instead of rigid rules, educators need the freedom to finesse delicate questions about young students’ gender identity.
Parents deserve the option.
As an environmental journalist and a parent, I worry that the animals in my son’s bedtime stories will disappear before he learns they’re real.
Motherhood during the pandemic wasn’t so miserable after all. But some moms did better than others.
How $100 billion helped families, changed no votes, and is about to disappear
Hamstrung by the need to ensure that their kids don’t inconvenience anyone else, parents can’t do much parenting at all.
I don’t want a relationship with her, but my parents want us to make up.
Fake puppies that could move and bark and dance were all the rage in the early 2000s. How is it possible that we live in a society that could fall out of love with such a thing?
Children who spent their formative years in the bleach-everything era will certainly have different microbiomes. The question is whether different means bad.
In 2014, an octopus made headlines for starving herself while protecting her eggs. Why does she remind me of my mom?
A modern generation of animated sitcoms shows a rarity in the genre: well-adjusted fathers.
Baby cams are sold on the notion that something could go disastrously wrong in the nursery.
Rich and poor women had completely different experiences.
Solitude can help children grow, but some might not be getting enough of it.
Raising kids in America is expensive and isolating. A caregivers’ lobby could help.