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Raising Gen Beta: AI Anxiety, Wooden Toys, And Finding Peace

I was sitting in the dark nursing my son while the Chicago winter tried to break my living room windows. My phone screen was the only light in the room. I had fallen down a 3 AM internet rabbit hole...

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When the Internet Decides Your Toddler Needs Street Cred

I was wiping smeared avocado off my toddler's chin at the local park when a pack of ten-year-olds sat on the bench next to us. One of them had a phone propped up, blasting gang baby lyrics into the humid...

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Why Your Dog Freaks Out When the Kid Screams (A Father's Log)

Dear Marcus from exactly six months ago, You're currently sitting on the hallway floor at 3:14 AM. You have the tracking app open on your phone, verifying that the nursery is exactly 69.5 degrees with 44 percent humidity, and you...

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Does the baby die in Squid Game Season 3

I was thirty-eight minutes into episode four, balancing a sleeping infant on my left breast and a bowl of cold dal on my right thigh, when I aggressively hit pause. My husband flinched from the other side of the sofa...

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Reality TV Sleep Advice vs. Rural Texas Parenting (62 chars)

I was three hours into a late-night doom scroll, balancing a sour-smelling burp cloth on my shoulder, when I dropped my phone flat on my face. I was reading some pop culture gossip trying to figure out if Sparkle Megan...

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The Henry Cavill Baby Era: What I Wish I Knew Before the Chaos

It was 6:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing barefoot on my freezing kitchen tiles, wearing my husband Tom’s oversized gray sweatpantsβ€”the ones with an unidentified, crusty yogurt stain on the left thigh that I keep forgetting to...

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The Messy Truth About HiPP And Why I Smuggled European Milk

When Leo was about four months old, it was 3:14 AM and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a college t-shirt that smelled aggressively like sour milk and maternal desperation. My husband Greg was making his third pour-over coffee...

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Exactly How Many Babies Are Born in the US Each Year?

It was 4:12 a.m. on a particularly bleak Tuesday when I found myself sliding down a demographic rabbit hole. Maya, who's technically twin A but behaves aggressively like a middle child, had decided that sleep was a social construct she...

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The honest guide on how to sleep train a baby (without losing it)

It's 2:14 AM. I'm sitting on the top stair of our narrow London terrace, clutching a cold, profoundly sad crumpet, aggressively watching the timer on my phone tick down from five minutes. From behind the closed nursery door, Florence is...

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