Why Sugar Baby Websites Are a Parent's Literal Worst Nightmare
Don't, under any circumstances, attempt to buy refined-sugar-free snacks at three in the morning while holding a teething toddler by typing vaguely health-conscious search terms into your smartphone. It's twenty past three in the morning, and I'm actively failing at...
Vetting Caregiver Platforms & Stopping the Sugar Baby Madness
It was exactly 10:14 PM on a Tuesday, which is already a deeply offensive time for me to be awake, let alone wearing hard pants. My husband Mark and I had just gotten back from our first actual "date night"...
Finding the Sugar Baby Mod Sims 4 on My Niece's PC Screen Last Week
I was sitting on my sister's aggressively beige sectional in Naperville, enjoying thirty seconds of silence. My toddler was finally asleep upstairs. I was watching the green night-vision feed on the baby m screen, just waiting for the inevitable moment...
Freaking Out About The Sugar Baby Movies In My Moms Group
So my sister-in-law is standing by the toddler swings yesterday, violently shaking her Yeti mug in the air, telling me I need to throw Mayaβs iPad straight into the nearest river because she just watched that Sundance documentary. You know...
Alexa, Stop: Navigating The Yes Baby Madison Beer Lyrics Trap
Dear Jess from last October. I know you're currently up to your elbows in mismatched socks, feeling pretty smug because the kids are actually playing quietly in the den for once. You think you've got this whole mothering-three-kids-under-five thing figured...
The Truth About The Sims 4 Sugar Baby Mod
The milk was boiling over on my sister's stove when I saw it. I was standing in her Chicago kitchen, bouncing my toddler on my hip while trying to salvage the chai, and her fourteen-year-old stepdaughter was clicking away on...
Dear past me: Surviving the great scrap baby incident of October
Dear Sarah from six months ago, Itβs Tuesday, right? Youβre sitting on the hot driveway asphalt wearing that oversized gray NYU hoodie with the mysterious yellow stain on the left cuff that might be mustard but is honestly probably breastmilk...
Pretty Baby: Brooke Shields and the Myth of Normal Parenting
I'm currently paused on a frame of a 1980s television talk show host asking an 11-year-old child an incredibly inappropriate question about her body. The harsh glow of the TV is illuminating the half-empty bottles on our coffee table, my...
Pretty Baby Full Movie Searchers: A Mom's Take on Screens
I was sitting on my living room floor at 10 PM last Tuesday, folding what felt like my four-thousandth load of tiny toddler socks, when I went down a massive Google rabbit hole. I had just finished watching that two-part...