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A toddler sitting on a park bench looking confused at a smartphone screen

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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Palace Confirms Baby Number 4 Rumors: The Reality of Four Kids

It was three in the morning, Chicago was freezing, and I was pinned under the dead weight of my toddler while doomscrolling TikTok. The blue light was burning my retinas when a robotic AI voice read a headline over a...

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What Being a Baby Mama Actually Means Off the Internet

I was sitting on the floor of my guest bedroomβ€”which I generously call my "Etsy shipping headquarters"β€”with packing tape stuck to my thigh, listening to a 90s hip-hop playlist, when a song came on loudly dropping the phrase "baby mama."...

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The Truth About Baby Fat and Why My Doctor Said Stop Stressing

I was sitting on the crinkly paper of the exam table at our pediatrician’s office, practically sweating through my shirt, while my middle child Wyatt sat there looking like a dinner roll that had just exploded out of its tin....

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The Reality of Sparkle Megan's Baby Reveal (From a Tired Dad)

Dear Marcus of six months ago. It's currently 3:14 AM, the rain is aggressively battering the Portland windows, and you're sitting in the glider chair trying to figure out if breathing too loudly will wake up the tiny human currently...

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Otaku Parenting and the Messy Reality of Cute Anime Baby Trends

My sister-in-law cornered me at a family barbecue, holding a dripping hot dog that was dangerously close to my sweater, to insist that if I didn't dress four-month-old Leo in a full Naruto outfit for his first official photos, I...

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