How The Rapper Baby Kaely Totally Changed My Digital Parenting
It was Tuesday at exactly 4:38 PM, which, if you've children, you know is the absolute worst time of day. The witching hour. My four-year-old, Maya, was actively crying because her string cheese was "too stringy," and I was standing...
Why Searching For That Baby John Cartoon Sent Me Into A Panic
My mother-in-law swore by propping Leo up with an iPad the second he got fussy, my sister acted like letting a 3D animated pig sing a nursery rhyme would literally dissolve his frontal lobe, and my husband Dave just muttered...
Billionaire Custody Drama: What Real Parents Can Actually Learn
I spent my first two months as a mom trying to run my household like an intensive care unit. I had spreadsheets for dirty diapers and laminated feeding schedules taped to the fridge. It was a disaster. I was exhausted,...
Searching for baby bowser: Screen time, hair bows, and pure panic
It was 6:14 on a Tuesday morning, a time when civilized society is safely asleep, but my living room looked like the aftermath of a minor coup. Twin A (Mia) was clutching the Nintendo Switch controller to her chest like...
Decoding the Baby Booter Slang: A Dad's Guide to Internet Traps
My mother-in-law texted me at 7:00 AM asking if I'd installed the "booter seat" in the car yet. An hour later, a buddy from my old dev team Slack messaged me a laughing emoji and said I was officially a...
The absolute truth about those sweet baby inc games you heard about
Tuesday night is usually reserved for mindless scrolling and pretending I'm going to fold the laundry. Instead, my phone buzzed with a WhatsApp forward from a local parent group. The message was entirely in caps, warning us to protect our...
When The Baby Little Nightmares 3 Trend Ruins Your Sleep
Don't let your sixteen-year-old cousin plug his console into the main living room television. That's the first rule of holiday gatherings, and I learned it the hard way. I had just finished my shift at the clinic, picked up my...
Lil baby wham tour: why a rap concert is not a pediatric milestone
I was sitting in the dark at three in the morning, covered in something sticky that I was praying was just spit-up, watching search results populate on my glowing phone screen. Half the mothers in my local Chicago moms group...
When You Google 'Sorry Baby' Showtimes Looking for Toddler Entertai...
It was 6:43 PM on a Tuesday, which in this house we affectionately refer to as the witching hour, and my oldest had just colored the dogβs tail with a blue Sharpie. I was elbows-deep in a sink full of...