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Why You Can Stop Panicking About Your Bow Legged Baby

Dear Sarah from six months ago, You're currently sitting on the sticky kitchen floor at 3:14 PM in those gray sweatpants with the mysterious yogurt stain, literally holding a plastic ruler up to Leo’s calves while he tries to eat...

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What to Do When You Look Outside and See a Baby Rat Near Your Kids

It was 6:15 on a freezing Tuesday morning, and I was standing in my kitchen wearing a pair of inside-out Target leggingsβ€”you know the ones with the side pocket that always sags?β€”drinking my third espresso because Maya was going through...

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Why the she gon call me baby boo meme is stressing moms out

My mother-in-law told me the twitching was a severe vitamin D deficiency. The millennial dad at the park said it was a highly sophisticated piece of Gen Alpha performance art. My pediatrician just sighed, rubbed his temples, and mumbled something...

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Raising an Antiracist Child: Why Colorblind Parenting Fails

It was a Tuesday in 2019. I was standing in aisle four of our local Target, wearing a pair of violently pilled gray yoga pants with a mystery stain on the knee, clutching a lukewarm iced coffee like it was...

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The Brutal Truth About Baby Guinea Pigs Nobody Tells Parents

The teenager behind the counter at the pet store was casually explaining to a mother that if she touched her new baby guinea pig, the mother pig would smell human on the baby and eat it. I had to physically...

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The Baphi Baby Search Incident: Why I Threw Our iPad Away

I was up to my elbows in raw chicken and breadcrumbs when I heard it. That specific, slightly robotic chime of the voice-assistant activating on the family iPad that my three-year-old had dragged into the kitchen. I didn't think much...

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Surviving the boss baby back in business era in our house

I tried hiding the remote behind the microwave. That was my first mistake, thinking I could outsmart a toddler with a singular fixation. You tell yourself you're going to be the parent who only plays classical music and nature documentaries,...

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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...

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What the Baby Goku Parenting Debate Actually Means for Us

The blue light from the television was illuminating a fresh patch of spit-up on the couch cushions. It was two in the morning. My husband was sitting cross-legged on the rug, and our toddler was wedged between his knees, furiously...

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