So when I imagined having kids, it was always plural. If I was lucky enough to have one child, I knew I wanted to try to have ...
You could almost forget that the "cycle" we're trying to break here is the cycle of abuse. Cycle-breaking is the idea that we ...
I peered out in the dark, the barely begun Eaton fire still miles away from our house: “If our house burned down, what would you miss the most?” “Kira. All of Altadena would have to burn ...
At first, I didn't know how to be a sexual person and a parent. Which was fair, because nothing in life prepared me for that.
“Now she can go to college,” I joked to a friend of mine when I finally managed to procure for my 5-month-old daughter a Lovevery Play Gym. More expensive than another other baby gym on the ...
When Hurricane Milton made landfall along Florida's Gulf Coast as a Category 3 storm on the evening of Wednesday, Oct. 9, hospitals were hunkered down statewide. Even those on the East Coast ...
Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...
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 ...
Let’s get one thing straight: My well-worn copies of Emily Oster’s books Expecting Better and Cribsheet are dog-eared and underlined, and The Family Firm is currently on my nightstand.