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Why That Viral Baby Saja Trend Totally Freaked Me Out

It was 8:14 on a Tuesday morning and I was wearing Dave’s college sweatpants with a hardened crust of what I think was blueberry oatmeal on the knee, aggressively pressing the brew button on my coffee maker for the third...

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What the Blueface Baby Tabloid Drama Actually Taught Me About Safety

My mom called me last week in an absolute panic saying I needed to delete my apps because parents were chucking their infants at walls, my neighbor Sarah cornered me at the mailbox to tell me belly button hernias mean...

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Why I Threw Out the iPad: Real Talk on Baby Screen Time Limits

I was packing up three Etsy orders for custom birth announcement signs, trying to balance my phone on my knee, and completely failing to ignore my youngest baby screaming for his morning nap. I had this grand idea to find...

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What the Travis Hunter Baby Reveal Taught Us About Privacy

The biggest lie modern parenthood sold us is the wooden letter board. You know the exact one I mean. It sits next to a two-hour-old infant, broadcasting their precise weight, length, birth hour, full legal name, and hospital location to...

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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 Maya’s iPad straight into the nearest river because she just watched that Sundance documentary. You know...

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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...

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Why the pretty baby 1978 aesthetic is ruining modern motherhood

I spent three hours last Tuesday trying to wedge a screaming four-month-old into a neutral-toned, structured linen romper just so my mother-in-law wouldn't text me about how unkempt her granddaughter looked in my Instagram stories. The romper had eight tiny...

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The Truth About The Rakai Glitch Trend And Toddler Screen Time

I was wrist-deep in pureed carrots when my group chat of first-time moms started vibrating off the kitchen counter. Someone had seen a TikTok video about a glitching kid and was actively spiraling into a panic. They thought it was...

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A dad looking stressed at his phone while his baby daughter spins in the living room

The "Baby Girl Let Me See You Twirl Lyrics" Viral Audio Trap

My thumb was hovering over the bright blue "Post" button when Sarah’s hand shot across the kitchen island and physically tackled my phone into the fruit bowl. "What are you doing?" my wife asked, looking at me like I had...

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