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Frustrated mom sitting on the floor while her toddler throws a tantrum.

Are You Raising A Baby Tyrant Or Just A Normal Toddler

We were standing in the kitchen on a Tuesday. Dev was holding a blue plastic cup. I had just handed him the blue plastic cup because, three seconds prior, he had demanded the blue plastic cup. He looked at the...

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Exhausted mom holding her awake two month old baby in a dim nursery

The 2 month old baby survival protocol: sleep, poop, and panicking ...

Listen, it's three in the morning and you're staring at the ceiling while your kid makes pterodactyl noises in the bassinet next to you. Your auntie's voice is echoing in your head, insisting that if you just put some rice...

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1000 Babies Review: Surviving The First Thousand Days of Chaos

I'm currently watching my four-year-oldβ€”the child I swear is my living, breathing cautionary tale for what happens when you read too many parenting blogsβ€”try to lasso our basset hound with a phone charger. Meanwhile, my youngest is mashing an unidentified...

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A tired mom holding a slippery baby next to a bathtub filled with plastic soap bottles

The Ugly Truth About Baby Wash and That Famous Newborn Smell

I was standing in the middle of Target, heavily pregnant with my second, actively sniffing a plastic bottle of yellow shampoo while my oldest kid scratched his eczema patches until they bled. I remember looking at the ingredients list, which...

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Why I threw my baby's amber teething necklace in the trash

It was exactly 3:14 AM. I know this because the glowing red numbers on the microwave were basically mocking me from the kitchen. The bathroom floor tiles were freezing against my bare legs, and I was wearing a gray nursing...

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The Absolute Chaos of Finding a Toddler Boy Sweater That Works

It was 7:42 AM on a Tuesday in late November, and I was standing in the mudroom holding a half-drunk iced Americanoβ€”because I’m an idiot who drinks iced coffee in 38-degree weatherβ€”wrestling Leo into a miniature fisherman’s knit. He was...

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Toddler throwing a tantrum over wearing pants next to a pile of outgrown clothes.

The Brutal Truth About Kinder Kleider: Clothes That Actually Fit

"Buy them a size up so they get two seasons out of it," my mom told me over the phone while I was staring blankly at a rack of toddler jeans, trying to figure out if the waist looked wide...

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Why Taking Kids to a Physical Clothing Store is a Total Trap

It's 3:14 PM on a Tuesday, and I'm wedged into a cubicle the size of a shoebox at our local mall, sweating through my favorite shirt and gripping an eight-dollar lukewarm vanilla latte like it might save my life. Maya,...

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Exhausted mother staring at a sleeping infant in a dimly lit nursery room

Surviving the first weeks with your new baby without losing it

I was sitting in the passenger seat of our Honda CR-V on top of a literal ice pack, staring at the mirror angled toward the car seat in the back. My husband was driving ten miles under the speed limit...

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