Tag: parenting

Knowing what we now know about global warming, is procreation irresponsible?

Are you really achieving representation for your child with special needs if you’re only sharing the upbeat, attractive photos on social media?

Trying to form some connection to the father who abandoned him, an outdoorsman surfs the California beach where his father grew up, while looking for answers in the autobiography his father left behind.

Artist Myfanwy Tristram was irritated by her teenage daughter’s extreme fashions — until she took an illustrated journey into their origins.

Can an American family learn to become outdoorsy in New Zealand, where the natural world is part of the national DNA? Sort of.

Jennifer Berney explores how queer families challenge traditional notions of heredity and paternity.

Debbie Weingarten considers the anxieties of mothering and being human in a volatile world.

In the wake of her mother’s passing, Dylan Landis wrestles with unanswered questions about love and art, and imagines different possibilities of what could have been.

Are we sacrificing our childrens’ inner lives by protecting them too much?

Here’s a reading list to celebrate World Breast Pumping Day on January 27.

Kira Martin struggles through her connection – both emotional and physical – with her troubled and destructive son.

“We are experts in our own lives, but ignored by the world at large.”

A child’s doll exerts a gravitational pull on every member of her family.

A new father with early-stage MS sets out to understand the interiors of his daughter’s mind, and his own.

Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.

Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.

Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.

Kitchen karma comes for Irina Dumitrescu when her young son turns into the picky eater she used to be.

When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.

Some parents don’t want their kids to know how much money they have. They also don’t want their kids to become opera singers.

Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.

“Brayden” and “Nevaeh” have got nothing on their 17th-century predecessors, “Waitstill” and “Supply.”

After a series of dead ends, a young man finds direction and identity in the Army. Despite his parents’ pride, the lingering question becomes: at what personal cost? 

When her son was born, Emily Gould read 25 books about babies and sleep, but wound up only more confused.

Leslie Jamison explores the fraught role of stand-in parent as she considers her new life as a stepmother to a six-year-old.

The beloved author confronts some critical questions.

But by trying to Make Childhood Great Again, this parent misses a critical point about why kids are overscheduled.

Navigating life with a transgender child.

Writer Katherine Reynolds Lewis, in Mother Jones, examines the latest approaches to addressing children and discipline—most notably, that timeouts, negative consequences, and other traditional punishments might not be as effective in many cases as helping kids manage their own emotions. It’s based on “Collaborative and Proactive Solutions,” a program that was developed by psychologist Ross […]

Rewriting the false narrative of childlessness.