The Truth About Infant Sun Shirts (And Why Your Baby is Sweating)
I was standing in the middle of the H-E-B parking lot in late July, wrestling what felt like a wet fruit roll-up off my screaming four-month-old. Jackson, my oldest and forever my cautionary tale, was beet red and slick with...
My Honest Erstausstattung Winterbaby Survival Guide For Moms
It's mid-November, I'm standing in our tiny apartment hallway in maternity leggings that honestly smell vaguely like sour milk, and I'm sweating profusely while drinking lukewarm coffee because my three-week-old son Leo looks exactly like a furious, red-faced marshmallow. I...
Dear Past Me: The Brutal Truth About Wrapping Babies in Cotton
Dear Tom of twenty-four months ago, It's currently Tuesday evening, and you're standing in the nursery of our flat in Zone 3, staring at a stack of twenty-four identical white squares of fabric your mother-in-law just dropped off. You're holding...
Skianzug Kinder Jungen: Warum wir drei kauften, bis einer passte
Ich saß auf dem eisigen Fliesenboden dieser extrem nach feuchtem Hund und ranzigem Pommesfett riechenden Skihütten-Toilette in Laax, balancierte meinen lauwarmen Hafermilch-Cappuccino auf dem Rand des Waschbeckens und versuchte verzweifelt, meinem Sohn Leo (der damals 3 war und heute 4...
Why I Finally Put My Kid in Vintage Shirts (And Didn't Panic)
I was standing in the middle of our living room holding a 1993 Soundgarden tour tee with a pair of silicone kitchen tongs. My wife, Sarah, was watching me from the hallway with the exact same expression she uses when...
The Truth About the Country Baby Tee Trend for Actual Babies
Halfway through trying to pull a stiff, mustard-yellow flannel over my six-month-old's head, I heard a seam pop. He was turning a concerning shade of magenta. His arms were pinned awkwardly against his ears, trapping him in a sort of...
The Absolute Nightmare of Buying Toddler Khaki Shorts
I was sweating through three layers of sage green bridesmaid tulle in a 104-degree Texas July, standing inside a rented porta-potty that smelled exactly as bad as you're imagining, frantically trying to unfasten a button the size of a baby...
Why Most Toddler Khaki Shorts Belong Straight In The Garbage
Three different people gave me completely conflicting instructions about dressing my kid for my cousin's outdoor wedding last summer. My mother-in-law cornered me at the mehndi to declare that a proper beta needs stiff, pleated trousers to look respectable in...
Lätzchen Frottee: A letter to my past self about solid foods
Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the kitchen floor wiping sweet potato puree off the baseboards with a dried-out baby wipe while your son cries because he rubbed it into his left eyebrow. You think this...