Kid stars on Instagram are a growing part of the influencer marketing industry, working increasingly with clothing and toy brands.
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Talking to Big Baby
A child’s doll exerts a gravitational pull on every member of her family.
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Rob Delaney and His Son’s Cancer
Actor and writer Rob Delaney shares his family’s experience with every parent’s nightmare: a very sick child.
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Becoming a Woman Who Yells at Her Children
If yelling is the new spanking, where does that leave the progressive, occasionally voice-raising parent?
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How to Ruin the Scripps Spelling Bee in Four Letters: E-S-P-N
At the Scripps Spelling Bee, no one asks for whom the bell tolls. It’s glaringly, if painfully obvious.
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Born Again
“Rebirth therapy” was meant to help a troubled girl start over, but it ended her life instead.
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Walking Through the Past Into New Motherhood
A new mother struggles to make sense of intergenerational trauma, biological memory and the guilty privilege of passing as white even though she is Jewish.
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Sometimes the Story Finds You: An Interview With Rachel Monroe
The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.
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A Certain Kind of Mammal
Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
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The Doctor is a Woman
An excerpt from Sloane Crosley’s new essay collection, Look Alive Out There. Crosley reflects on the experience of freezing her eggs, despite her ambivalence about having children — and as a way of putting off the pressing matter of facing that ambivalence as a woman in her late 30s.