Articles Tagged with #parenting
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Opinions
Houston, We Have Contractions
A baby may be a tiny step for mankind, but it’s a giant one for new parents, especially the adult diapers part.
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Spoofs & Satire
Oh, the Games Adults Play Now
Children play games for fun. Adults play games to crush and humiliate. An analysis of behavior on the grown-ups’ playground.
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Personal Essays
Intensive Care
Every mother worries her child could suddenly become ill. For one, motherhood requires living with the fear that her son could become just like her.
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Personal Essays
Kiss and Tell
When you’re four years old, a kiss is an accessory in a game of dress-up. When you’re the four-year-old’s mother, that kiss comes with a costume trunk of questions.
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Opinions
Planet Zoo
More than a generation of Americans have been urged to save the Earth. A survey of the current climate and every H.G. Wells-inspired geoengineering project shows it’s time to pray for Homo sapiens.
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Opinions
The Unbearable Lightness of Declaring a Liberal Arts Major
Faced with a deadline to choose her major, our writer hunts down interview subjects to learn where their studies got them, no matter her mother’s loathing of the liberal arts.
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Personal Essays
Finding Positive
When pregnancy showed up unbidden, a writer demands a second test, and a third, and a fourth. But then she saw a result many women spend years searching for.
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Spoofs & Satire
From the Annals of Motherhood
When faced with insurmountable obstacles, when all other options have been exhausted—that’s when moms say the darndest things.
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Personal Essays
Brief Scenes From Our Marriage
First comes love, then comes marriage, then comes the Opposite of Feng Shui. A marriage, told in four parts.
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Personal Essays
To Will a Mockingbird
Fashions come and go, but names tend to stick around forever, even hippie ones.
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Spoofs & Satire
This Is Going to Hurt Me More Than It Hurts You
For the good of their children, parents must be able to properly—sometimes even excruciatingly—discipline them when necessary.
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Spoofs & Satire
The Babysitter
The kids are asleep upstairs, and the sitter waits alone in a darkened house—and then the phone rings. If you think you know what happens next, think again.