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Category Archive: 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

It’s still not easy to explain COVID to a three-year-old

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As the pandemic has dragged on, he’s grown into a thoughtful person who hears everything and wants answers. By Maya Schenwar

November 24, 2021 Culture, Family, Parenting Advice

Mothers are rethinking how to return to the workforce post pandemic

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The last 18 months have clarified one thing for me— my job was not worth what I had been giving up to keep it. By Laura Longhine

October 19, 2021 Culture

The dreaded question for women like me, what do you do for a living?

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There’s a certain emotional security that comes with having a glamorous job title. By Chiazo Obiudu

October 18, 2021 Culture

Why cleaning my daughter’s remote learning space wasn’t so easy for me

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Her posters reminded me that the little home-learning sanctuary we had created was now coming apart. By Katie Greulich

August 26, 2021 Culture, Family

I’m a Google executive. This is why I advocate low tech for my kids.

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Our children’s immature brains do not stand a chance against the sophisticated algorithm we designed to hook users. By Eva Tsai

June 2, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Q&A: You Don’t Have to Be Everything

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Talking to Diana Whitney about her collection of poems for girls becoming themselves. By Daisy Florin

May 13, 2021 Books, Culture

After years of rejecting a beauty regime, this is why I finally embraced one

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My mother was praised her whole life for her beauty; I preferred praise for my mind. By Emily Franklin

May 5, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

8 books to teach and inspire kids to become politically engaged

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Reading, Toni Morrison said, is political action in and of itself. By Olivia Watson

March 11, 2021 Books, Culture

Women and caregiving in the pandemic, there’s hope on the other side

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We didn’t ask for this new life, this set of unattainable demands and responsibilities. By Karen Paul

March 4, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Why is the cost of college so expensive?

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Many of us are or will be paying more for our children’s college education than our parents did for ours, what or who is actually responsible? By Ron Lieber

February 17, 2021 Books, Culture

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