My kids are my great kitchen apprentices
Cooking is a total sensory and educational experience — my kids have learned fractions and enhanced math skills with the measuring of ingredients — just by hanging with me in the kitchen.
Are parents happy?
In what seems like a surprising or at least dishonest turn, parents self-report seems to be that they are happy … these studies measured happiness moment-to-moment, a definition that makes sense in a culture that tends to be about the moment-to-moment with focus on products that provide quick fixes and instant pleasures.
What kind of hiking carrier should we use for our infant?
Rachael and her partner love hiking but have NO CLUE what to pack their baby in while they’re doing so. What do you use?
Why doesn’t anyone ever talk about Child-Free men?
“For all the stories written by and for women on this issue — and there are markedly few — men are more likely to be absent from the public dialogue about intentional childlessness. It isn’t as if they don’t exist, so why aren’t men’s stories also being heard?”
The day my partner adopted our daughter
My partner recently adopted our daughter — the one she has parented since birth — and simultaneously everything and nothing about our family changed .
Should we wait to travel until our kid is old enough to remember it?
Remember that time your parents took you to Mexico? What about the trip to Spain? Oh, no? That’s probably because you were too young.
How do you get to know your neighbors without seeming like a weirdo?
It’s a little sad to move out of an apartment realizing that you never learned the names of your neighbors. What schemes can we concoct to make the neighborhood friendlier?
The hazy magic of night nursing
“…Now pull baby close. Her eyes are still closed. My eyes are starting to strain because I’ve only allowed one to open this whole time. Mustn’t cross over to the waking world. Must return to slumber.”