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Category Archive: Culture

I was a child bride. It’s time to stop teaching young girls to stay sweet.

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Girls in my cult were drilled, above all else, to give up our sense of selves. By Tamara MC

August 10, 2022 Culture

How parents can get kids ready for visiting an art museum

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A family can visit a museum for less money than a movie—and far less than a theme park. By Linda Moore

July 27, 2022 Culture

Diet culture tries to infiltrate my family. Here’s why I reject it.

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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

July 27, 2022 Culture, Family

The time I caught my nanny drinking on the job

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I thought that if I could just find the right nanny, my life would be perfect. By Jennifer E. Rizzo

July 21, 2022 Culture

How to teach our sons that birth control is their responsibility too

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As a teenager, I absorbed the message that birth control revolved around the female body. By Billy Kilgore

July 14, 2022 Culture

What’s in baby formula, and why does everyone think it’s so terrible?

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The backlash against formula manufacturers isn’t about antibodies or probiotics. It’s about money. By Marie Holmes

July 1, 2022 Culture, Parenting Advice

For years we chanted, we won’t go back. And yet, here we are.

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Should I really be telling my daughter to delete her period tracker apps? By Ellen Friedrichs

June 29, 2022 Culture

I realized I used the wrong pronouns. This is what happened next.

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“If you go back,” my twelve-year-old said, “say I’m sorry *if* I mis-gendered you.” By Kim Anton

June 23, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How formula helped me connect with my baby

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The formula recall came days after I quit breastfeeding. By Samantha Schlemm

June 17, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why our daughters need more heroes like Eleven

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Somewhere deep down, these girls sense that rage is exactly the right thing to feel. By Nan Mooney

May 27, 2022 Culture

The book that taught me to trust my explosive child

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To stand with your kid, in radical acceptance, is one of the hardest things a parent can do. By Amanda Diekman

April 7, 2022 Books, Culture, Parenting Challenges

How can we help our teens get more sleep?

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They are the “most sleep-deprived group of any individuals the world has ever seen.” By Molly Wadzeck Kraus

April 4, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Seeing who my child really is, across the basketball court

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My daughter’s emerging identity—the fluidity she wanted to embody—seemed to be taking her away from me. By Shelly R. Fredman

March 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Being raised by two moms made me who I am today

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My memories of growing up with gay parents in the early 2000s are fraught, confused, kaleidoscopic. By m.m. gumbin

March 23, 2022 Culture, Family

The book that changed the way I think about my autistic son

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“Autism isn’t an illness. It’s a different way of being human.” By Liz Koch

March 21, 2022 Culture, Parenting Guidance

Let kids wear what they want. It matters more than ever.

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We owe our children safe spaces to adorn themselves with color and material and fit and comfort as they decide. By Kristen H. McLeod

March 10, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why pregnant women feel the need to keep secrets

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We tell the world about the lives that live, but we hold inside the lives that are lost. By Adrian Rose

March 7, 2022 Culture, Family

How is it that we’re still asking what stay-at-home moms do all day?

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Having choices, not just careers, is fundamental to feminism. By Liz Sjaastad

February 16, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why it’s important for boys to be able to wear their hair long

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My son’s chestnut brown hair flows a foot down his back. By Jesse Curran

January 26, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Teaching my kids how to make focaccia helped my family find peace

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There’s power in knowing you can do something creative, even in a world turned upside down. By Sarah Walker Caron

January 24, 2022 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How curiosity can help lead women to their unicorn space

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Why is the question—what makes you feel the most like you?—so often met with an extended pause? By Eve Rodsky

January 12, 2022 Books, Culture

Perimenopause and the climate crisis are hitting me at the same time. Now what?

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We are both going haywire, Mother Nature and I. By Marya Markovich

January 5, 2022 Culture

Why I chopped off my hair during the pandemic to try to reinvent myself

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It’s refreshing to see so many Black women showing how beautiful short and natural hair can be. By Chanize Thorpe

January 3, 2022 Culture

12 of our favorite books about Christmas for little kids

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Great reads for festive days! By Anaita Vazifdar-Davar

December 14, 2021 Books, Culture

Books to gift the young readers in your life this holiday season

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10 titles that are sure to entertain and empower children and middle grade readers.

December 9, 2021 Books, Culture

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