A new book suggests that there is radical potential in taking a career break — or "power pause" — to raise your kids.
The Internet I grew up with as an elder Millennial is wildly different from the one my daughter will experience — for better ...
When Kirsta, a Milwaukee art teacher, was diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder, she started making Instagram reels to vent about her experience as an adoptee. In some of her most-viewed ...
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Nothing about school during the pandemic has been easy for anyone. Districts suddenly shifted to distance learning last spring with little to no prior experience. Kids without access to WiFi and ...
When the fires first started to burn, Velasquez tells me she felt “what everyone was feeling: helpless.” She couldn’t stand just watching anymore, and that’s when she started organizing donations.
My younger sister Kai and I were shuffling around Brooklyn’s Prospect Park, when she said, “I’m moving to LA.” Graham cracker dust gathered at the corners of her mouth. “Thanks, these ...
We’re all having fun with The Last of Us, right? It stars daddy du jour Pedro Pascal. Bella Ramsey’s Ellie has the kind of quick tongue we wished we had at 14. And by comparison, their ...
Jesmille Darbouze on the eternal scourge of mom guilt, the one thing she swore she’d never do as a parent, and pancakes for dinner.
Ten months after her husband, Hal, died, Rebecca Woolf posted on Instagram that she was in a new relationship. She hadn’t meant to “‘meet someone’ meet someone,” as she put it.
In my work with parents who are caring for a child with an eating disorder, I’ve become keenly aware of the language we use when talking about kids and food. Our words can shape our attitudes ...
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 ...