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A wooden baby walker and stacking blocks on a living room rug.

Spielzeug fΓΌr 1 Jahr: What I Thought vs. What Actually Works

I was standing in the middle of my living room at 6 AM yesterday, holding a lukewarm cup of coffee and staring at a blinking, singing plastic cow that my mother-in-law bought my youngest for his first birthday. The cow...

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Annoyed baby holding a wooden and silicone teether while drooling

Why your baby hates every teething toy you buy

My mother-in-law casually suggested rubbing whiskey on my daughter's gums. The neighborhood mom-group admin swore by a thirty-dollar raw Baltic amber necklace that apparently possesses magical anti-swollen properties. My old charge nurse at the hospital just shrugged, told me to...

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A toddler's hands reaching for scattered wooden building blocks on a rug.

Dear past Priya: The truth about wooden blocks for your toddler

You're standing in the middle of the living room at three in the morning, holding a plastic blender that just sang a high-pitched song about making a smoothie because your foot grazed it in the dark. Your heel is throbbing....

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DreijΓ€hriges Kind spielt konzentriert mit Holzbausteinen auf einer Matte

Spielzeug fΓΌr 3-JΓ€hrige: Ein ehrlicher Survival-Guide

Meine Mutter rief gestern aus dem Nichts an und meinte, wir brΓ€uchten fΓΌr meine Nichte Clara sofort eine 1,50 Meter hohe PlastikkΓΌche mit elektronischen BrutzelgerΓ€uschen, weil sie jetzt in "diesem Alter" sei. Unser Nachbar, dessen Kinder irgendwie immer aussehen, als...

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A wooden and crochet baby teether resting on a folded organic cotton blanket.

What I Got Wrong About The Humble Baby Teether

It was three in the morning and my daughter's chin looked like a slip-and-slide. She was chewing on my knuckles with the jaw strength of a pitbull, soaking right through her organic baby tee with a volume of saliva that...

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A very drooly baby aggressively chewing on a wooden fox teething ring

The truth about newborn teething rings and endless drool

"Just rub a little bit of whisky on her gums, that’s what we did with you," my dad suggested, watching Mabel gnaw furiously on her own fist at a Sunday roast. "No, you need a Baltic amber necklace, but only...

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A mom holding a coffee looking stressed in a desert backyard setting.

The Biggest Baby Rattlesnake Myth Ruining Your Desert Vacation

I was standing in my mother-in-law's Scottsdale backyard at 7 AM, wearing these completely impractical wide-leg linen pants that I thought made me look "resort casual" but actually just made me look like I was in a cult. I was...

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A chewed-up silicone baby teether next to a spilled cup of cold coffee

The Truth About Safe Baby Teethers (And What I Actually Used)

It was 3:14 PM on a Tuesday, raining sideways, and I was wearing those black maternity leggings that had a suspicious yogurt stain on the knee from three days prior. Maya was about five and a half months old, sitting...

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A tired mom holding a coffee mug and surrounded by newborn teether toys

The 3 AM Drool Fest: Why Newborn Teether Toys Actually Saved My Sanity

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was wearing a Dartmouth sweatshirt from 2008 that had a crusty white stain on the shoulder that I was actively choosing to ignore. Leo was exactly eleven weeks old. And he...

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