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Confused dad holding up a tiny organic cotton bodysuit in a baby clothing store

The Absolute Biggest Myth About Finding a Good Baby Clothing Store

The greatest lie ever sold to expectant parents isn't that you'll eventually sleep again (though that's a massive, highly documented falsehood). It's the entire concept of the baby clothing store. Before the twins arrived, I had this hallucination of wandering...

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Toddler running in garden wearing sustainable boys apparel and a sun hat

Why the clothing industry is completely wrong about little boys

There's this incredibly persistent, borderline dangerous myth floating around the local playgroups that dressing male children is somehow the easy way out. The working theory goes that while parents of girls are trapped in a complex matrix of tights that...

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Little boy standing in organic cotton jogger pants looking stubborn

The Great Trouser Battle: A Letter To Myself About Dressing Boys

Dear Jess of six months ago: You're currently sweating entirely through your good linen blouse, pinning a flailing four-year-old to the living room rug while desperately trying to yank a pair of stiff, miniature raw-denim jeans over his incredibly solid...

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Toddler hands stacking natural wooden blocks on a rug

Letter to My Past Self: The Cold Truth About Toddler Wooden Blocks

It's 2:14 in the morning. I'm sitting on the edge of the bathtub rubbing the arch of my left foot where a neon plastic interlocking brick just tried to amputate my heel. I'm writing this to you, Priya from six...

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Verzweifelter Vater hΓ€lt eine elektrische ZahnbΓΌrste fΓΌr Kinder neben einem grinsenden Baby.

Elektrische ZahnbΓΌrste Kinder: Unser absurdes Dental-Debugging

Letzten Sonntag beim Barbecue hier in Portland stand ich mit einem Kleinkind auf dem Arm, das gerade hingebungsvoll auf einer Fernbedienung herumkaute, und bekam von drei verschiedenen Leuten drei komplett gegensΓ€tzliche Updates fΓΌr meine vΓ€terliche Firmware aufgedrΓ€ngt. Meine Mutter meinte,...

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A toddler girl in a ribbed organic cotton bodysuit looking messy but comfortable

The truth about girls clothing from a tired pediatric nurse

My mother told me I needed to dress my daughter in pure silk to protect her aura from negative energy. The veteran charge nurse on my pediatric floor said to put her in whatever was cheapest at the discount store...

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Toddler sitting on a rug wearing soft organic cotton bottoms

The ugly truth about girls pants and those morning meltdowns

It's 7:14 AM on a Tuesday. I'm sitting on the nursery rug, sweating through my t-shirt, trying to force a stiff, sequined denim leg onto a thrashing two-year-old. She's screaming like I'm taking a bone saw to her shin. I...

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Toddler boy wearing retro organic cotton shorts at a playground

Why toddler boy winter legwear is a psychological battleground

My mother-in-law cornered me in the kitchen last Thanksgiving to announce that if I didn't cover my son's knees, the winter draft would settle into his joints and cause permanent arthritis. Thirty minutes later at the park, a fellow mom...

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A heavily loaded stroller parked on a cracked Chicago sidewalk

The ugly truth about buying a toddler stroller

I was stuck halfway across the intersection of Belmont and Clark when the right front wheel of my wildly expensive travel system simply gave up. It didn't detach or shatter. It just locked completely sideways, grinding against the salty Chicago...

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