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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

This is what happened when my husband wouldn’t do the dishes

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Regardless of who works outside of the home, men do less housework than women. And COVID has made the imbalance worse. By Molly Winter

January 13, 2021 Culture, Parenting Challenges

Video games are helping teens connect with friends right now

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In the Before Time, I wouldn’t have allowed Call of Duty in our house, much less allowed him to play it for hours on end. By Deborah Williams

September 7, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

What it means to be the mother of a black teenage son right now

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I’ve been sitting with the reality that this world will never see my son’s heart before they see his color. By Kai McGee

June 1, 2020 Culture

Finding out your baby has special needs during a pandemic

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Shelter in place has become a cocoon where our family has slowly let this diagnosis of Down syndrome sink in. By Maggie Shafer

April 15, 2020 Culture, Family

Pink shinguards for my son. Why did I care?

Individual bags of hot pink Nike shin guards
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I hesitated because I am a product of my society, just like everyone else. By Fiona Leary Boucher

May 29, 2019 Culture, Family

My son’s recovery under the light of the moon

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This has become our routine: reliving each event point by point, trying to trigger a memory. By Amy Roost

January 7, 2019 Family, Parenting Challenges

Perspective | Why we are turning off football this year

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As much as I loved football as a kid, I don’t want my own sons watching—or playing—a sport based on such overt violence. By Kate Allen Fox

November 20, 2018 Culture, Family

Finding a “teachable moment” in the Kavanaugh hearings

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I’ve always told my sons that “boys will be boys” is neither a license nor an excuse. To hear that rhetoric used to erase Christine Ford’s allegations makes me want to scream. By Deborah Lindsay Williams

September 26, 2018 Culture

Punishment by weeding, a tale of fatherhood

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I’d tried to make my sons do various jobs over the years, all with disastrous results. By David McGlynn

June 15, 2018 Books, Family

There is more than one way to be a boy

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Both of my sons are the male equivalent of a tomboy. But there isn’t a word for that. By Marya Markovich

December 19, 2017 Culture

Is it okay for my 14-year-old son to hug me all the time?

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Catherine Newman’s not-so-ordinary advice column for the parents of teens.

October 30, 2017 Parenting Advice

How I embrace my son’s language of numbers

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I learned to meet him right where he was, which was on the floor, counting.
By Rachel Turner

July 27, 2017 Parenting Challenges

On being a part-time working mom

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Mothers are not static entities. We evolve in this role, as in any other.
By Lauren Apfel

July 25, 2017 Culture

The 10 ways my sons and daughter are not so different at all

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Is my daughter a “tomboy” or a “girly girl”? She is neither and she is both.
By Lauren Apfel

March 22, 2017 Culture
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