Does each of your children represent a novel you’ll never write? Michael Chabon is okay with that.
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Five Early Lessons in Parenting
Steven Church discovers his own fragility and limitations in these five discussions with his son.
Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Story, Unapologetic Women
A Certain Kind of Mammal
Meaghan O’Connell on the joy, the triumph, and the prison of breastfeeding.
Posted inFood, Highlight, Quotes
You Don’t Have to Eat It
Kitchen karma comes for Irina Dumitrescu when her young son turns into the picky eater she used to be.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Only Downside to Lower Infant-Mortality Rates? All Those Baby Books
When you don’t need to worry about the big things, you can start obsessing over the small ones.
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The Diabolical Genius of the Baby Advice Industry
On the modern explosion of a confusing, quackery-filled, yet irresistibly addictive book genre.
Posted inArts & Culture, Profiles & Interviews, Quotes
Things People Don’t Want Their Kids to Do
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.
Posted inArts & Culture, Nonfiction, Quotes, Science & Nature
Mothering Is Not the Enemy of Creative Work
Journalist Erika Hayasaki uses science to show how motherhood can improve creativity.
Posted inNonfiction, Quotes
The Other National Pastime: Unusual Baby Names
“Brayden” and “Nevaeh” have got nothing on their 17th-century predecessors, “Waitstill” and “Supply.”
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Notes from a Baby-Names Obsessive
Names channel our identity — or at least our parents’ idea of our future identity — in ways both big (class, ethnicity) and small (subcultural affiliations, self-awareness). When the mother’s American and the father’s French, things get complicated, fast.