Once, in town to help me take care of our 6-month-old while her son was traveling, my mother-in-law and I watched a movie about a woman whose dad is dying. Nodding toward the baby asleep on my chest, ...

It’s an endless cycle of purging and adding, of organizing and reorganizing. Of realizing the system you had when they were ...

I had a crazy idea, I told her. Something that would save us time and increase our intimacy — it would be like the ...

Growing up, I used to beg my parents to have another baby. “Please,” I would plead with them, “I need a brother or sister!” I really wanted a sister when I was younger, but as I got older ...

I peered out in the dark, the barely begun Eaton fire still miles away from our house: “If our house burned down, what would you miss the most?” “Kira. All of Altadena would have to burn ...

In the fall of 2022, something remarkable happened on Instagram Live. Ashley Bouder, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, spoke with raw and emotional honesty about “body-shaming ...

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 ...

Elizabeth*, 32, has been taking stimulants since the third grade. During her first pregnancy in 2020, her doctor told her she had to stop taking her medication, and she struggled, but felt she had ...

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 ...

A few years back, late in my first pregnancy, a box from my mother arrived containing a hand-knit baby blanket and the books she’d accumulated during her own pregnancies in the 1980s. They were ...