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Mom doing a thorough tick check on her baby's hairline after playing outdoors in the grass.

How to Handle a Tick Bite on Your Baby Without Losing Your Mind

I was elbows deep in lukewarm bathwater trying to scrub what I thought was a stubborn piece of dried Texas dirt out from behind my four-month-old’s left ear. My oldest was running around the bathroom completely naked, loudly singing a...

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A slightly terrified London dad pushing twin toddlers in a bucket swing over a damp lawn

The terrifying physics of your first garden baby swing setup

I'm standing in our damp, aggressively overgrown London garden, holding twenty feet of braided nylon rope and staring at a branch on our neighbor's encroaching oak tree, while Florence—who's supposed to be sitting quietly on a blanket—attempts to eat a...

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Confused dad sitting on lawn next to an 11-month-old baby, staring into a cardboard box.

What Do Baby Birds Eat? A Dad's Guide to Backyard Rescues

It's 2 PM on a Tuesday, I'm supposed to be pushing code to a staging server, and instead I'm on my knees in the dirt staring at what appears to be a raw chicken tender that has somehow sprouted a...

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A toddler covered in swamp mud staring at a fluffy black pukeko chick in the tall wetland reeds while his mom panics.

Dear Me: Don't Let Leo Touch That Swamp Chicken (A Pukeko Story)

Dear Sarah from last October. You're currently standing on the edge of the wetlands trail at 8:15 AM, wearing those maternity leggings you stubbornly refuse to throw away even though Leo is four years old now, and you're clutching an...

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Letter To Myself About The Baby Jogger City Mini GT2

Dear Marcus from six months ago. You're currently standing in the middle of a baby store aisle, sweating in your gray hoodie, trying to mentally compute tire diameters while staring at a wall of black canvas. You look ridiculous. Just...

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Little girl pointing at a fledgling bird of prey in the backyard grass

How To Handle It When Your Kids Find A Wild Raptor In The Yard

Tuesday morning. 7:14 AM. I'm standing in my kitchen wearing a grey fleece robe that smells vaguely of sour milk and defeat, holding my third cup of lukewarm coffee. It's the kind of morning where everything is just slightly damp...

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Toddler in a raincoat looking nervously at a flock of hissing waterfowl near a London pond

The Day the Park Waterfowl Fought Back: A Survival Log

The hissing started before we even breached the tree line at Hampstead Heath, sounding less like a natural animal noise and more like a punctured bicycle tyre that was somehow actively angry with me. I had a toddler under each...

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Surviving That First Ridiculous Baby Day Out Into The Wild

I stood with my hand hovering over the front door handle for a solid forty-five minutes, paralyzed by indecision. My twin girls, who were roughly ten weeks old at the time, were actually asleep in the gargantuan double buggy that...

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Stressed mom holding toddler on hiking trail looking for wildlife

Why That Cute Baby Moose Is Actually A Hiking Nightmare

I was holding my breath so hard I thought I was going to pass out right there on the gravel trail in Rocky Mountain National Park. We had blown our vacation budget driving up from Texas just to get out...

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