The Truth About the Lydia Plath Baby Rumors & Sibling Roles
Don't ever let your four-year-old think he runs the nursery, and definitely don't believe a single thing you read on the internet at two in the morning. That was the harsh lesson I learned this week while scrolling through my...
The Search Box Betrayal: Telugu Cinema and My Infant's Brain
It was 3:14 AM, the exact hour my optimism usually crashes and my brain reverts to safe mode. The baby was executing a flawless, high-decibel infinite loop of crying because of a newly erupting lateral incisor. I was bouncing him...
Toxic Internet Trends: What Parents Must Know About Baby Stickley
"Keep them off screens entirely until they're eighteen," my mum told me last Sunday over a lukewarm cup of tea, eyeing my smartphone like it was an unexploded bomb waiting to detonate in the living room. "Just stick the parental...
The Truth About Baby Squid: Seafood Purées and Screen Time Bugs
The biggest myth about modern parenthood is that searching for toddler topics yields cute, harmless information. You think you're looking up a simple dietary question, but the search engine decides you actually want a psychological thriller. I was standing in...
The Truth About That Welcome To Derry Baby Trend Wrecking Sleep
When the night terrors started last week, I naturally asked three different people for advice, which was my first mistake. The woman who runs our local playgroup suggested I let the twins "lean into their dark emotions" and process the...
Why parents who try to watch baby driver get weird search results
My mom called on a Tuesday to say I needed to buy a "baby driver" immediately because that's supposedly how I learned to walk in 1993. Four hours later, my frontend lead Slacked me a link saying I had to...
The Late-Night Internet Spiral and Your Baby's Goo Goo Phase
It's 3:17 AM. I'm sitting on the edge of the glider in my oldest kid's hand-me-down sweatpants, smelling faintly of sour milk and sheer desperation, holding a smartphone with the brightness turned all the way down so I don't accidentally...
Why I’m Terrified of the Internet and Buying Fox Blankets Instead
So my mother-in-law told me last week that I should just throw all our iPads into the nearest large body of water, my tech-bro brother-in-law said that if my seven-year-old Maya isn't coding in Python by now she’s basically going...
How Innocent Baby Searches Become Complete Digital Nightmares
Listen. I was standing in my kitchen wearing sweatpants with a suspicious stain on the knee, desperately trying to mash an avocado while a small human shrieked at my ankles. You know the exact kind of screaming I'm talking about....