For the over-40 set, the app feels like a confrontation with age itself. By Lauren Apfel
Category Archive: Culture
Nursing my son to sleep, I contemplated Marie Curie. By Nadja Cech
As November 8th looms, I’m thinking a lot about adoption and abortion and the ways they can be entangled. By Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser
My first pregnancy was picture perfect, until it wasn’t. By Erica Bailey
Our current system just isn’t set up to teach young people how to navigate their healthcare alone. By Ellen Friedrichs
I expected helpful suggestions, but what I got was a game-changing reality check. By Inga Puffer
I didn’t want my daughter to be a princess, but I also didn’t want her to fear femininity. By Meg Thompson
Neither my son nor I slept through the night for the first two years. By Karen Skalitzky.
I’m already planning the first book I will send to her at school. By Sarah Gundle
Talking about sexuality or supporting kids’ identities sure isn’t “grooming.” By Ellen Friedrichs
Girls in my cult were drilled, above all else, to give up our sense of selves. By Tamara MC
A family can visit a museum for less money than a movie—and far less than a theme park. By Linda Moore
I want to swoop in and re-wire the part of my son’s brain that thinks something is wrong with his body. By Kathleen Dunlap
I thought that if I could just find the right nanny, my life would be perfect. By Jennifer E. Rizzo
As a teenager, I absorbed the message that birth control revolved around the female body. By Billy Kilgore
The backlash against formula manufacturers isn’t about antibodies or probiotics. It’s about money. By Marie Holmes
Should I really be telling my daughter to delete her period tracker apps? By Ellen Friedrichs
“If you go back,” my twelve-year-old said, “say I’m sorry *if* I mis-gendered you.” By Kim Anton
The formula recall came days after I quit breastfeeding. By Samantha Schlemm
Somewhere deep down, these girls sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel. By Nan Mooney
To stand with your kid, in radical acceptance, is one of the hardest things a parent can do. By Amanda Diekman
They are the “most sleep-deprived group of any individuals the world has ever seen.” By Molly Wadzeck Kraus
My daughter’s emerging identity—the fluidity she wanted to embody—seemed to be taking her away from me. By Shelly R. Fredman
My memories of growing up with gay parents in the early 2000s are fraught, confused, kaleidoscopic. By m.m. gumbin
“Autism isn’t an illness. It’s a different way of being human.” By Liz Koch