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.”
This family could be models, but they’re just keeping it real
The family featured in this session from Ana Paul Photographers are the most non-supermodels-but-totally-supermodel-esque people ever. Ever.
If the baby co-sleeps in bed with you, where do you have sex?
Ok, co-sleepers: riddle us this! How do you co-sleep and keep your sex lives active in your bed?
Fighting with your teenage daughter can really suck
Meadow doesn’t seem to know how deeply I am affected by these fights… but maybe I don’t realize how they affect her.