And yet, I find a way to make it there, with whatever I’ve put aside to spend, to take a few hours to try on the dozens of ...

I found the books interesting to thumb through, but I didn’t read them, busy as I was with a curriculum of my own. There was the book, recommended by a midwife, that suggested I radically change ...

Today, Lepucki still doesn’t use location tracking for her kids, even though her son is now 13 and roams around on his own more and more. “My husband and I have really tried — and it’s not ...

I asked my daughter what “good at the internet” means to her, and she explained this boy knows which websites to use and how to phrase a search so the results make sense. The reverence with ...

My parents split when I was 10, which flooded me with relief. I was hopeful that Mean Scary Dad was just Dad who Was Married to Mom, and that going forward, he’d change. Instead, he treated ...

Mental health conditions account for over 20% of pregnancy-related deaths in this country. I knew it wouldn’t be fair to my family to take the risk.

As a child of the ’80s, I spent my summer breaks either babysitting or being babysat. Teen sitters held a mythical status for me. I was in awe of the neighbor who walked me to the library ...

These sacred hours are filled with a joy and ease rarely attributed to Black women. Typically, we are drawn as angry, authoritarian or grief stricken, caught in a never-ending loop of defending ...

The world was unprepared for the mom bloggers. With their unedited, stream-of-consciousness posts about brownies and episiotomies and how to get poop stains out of your stroller, the women writing ...

I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...

Then there are body image-related red flags: a child restricting certain food groups or hiding food in their rooms; a teacher sharing that a kid is routinely skipping lunch; or a parent noticing ...

I turn away from my husband and his snoring, using my back to try to block out the light from my phone. It is my favorite time of day: 10 p.m., in bed, secretly scrolling my favorite app, NYTimes ...