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Tired mom holding a lukewarm coffee while scrolling through babysitter profiles on her laptop.

Vetting Caregiver Platforms & Stopping the Sugar Baby Madness

It was exactly 10:14 PM on a Tuesday, which is already a deeply offensive time for me to be awake, let alone wearing hard pants. My husband Mark and I had just gotten back from our first actual "date night"...

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Finding the Sugar Baby Mod Sims 4 on My Niece's PC Screen Last Week

I was sitting on my sister's aggressively beige sectional in Naperville, enjoying thirty seconds of silence. My toddler was finally asleep upstairs. I was watching the green night-vision feed on the baby m screen, just waiting for the inevitable moment...

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Sarah looking stressed at the playground thinking about the sugar baby film and internet safety

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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Alexa, Stop: Navigating The Yes Baby Madison Beer Lyrics Trap

Dear Jess from last October. I know you're currently up to your elbows in mismatched socks, feeling pretty smug because the kids are actually playing quietly in the den for once. You think you've got this whole mothering-three-kids-under-five thing figured...

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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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Stressed mom holding coffee while treating a toddler's scraped knee.

Dear past me: Surviving the great scrap baby incident of October

Dear Sarah from six months ago, It’s Tuesday, right? You’re sitting on the hot driveway asphalt wearing that oversized gray NYU hoodie with the mysterious yellow stain on the left cuff that might be mustard but is honestly probably breastmilk...

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Portland dad watching a documentary while his baby sleeps in the next room

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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Pretty Baby Full Movie Searchers: A Mom's Take on Screens

I was sitting on my living room floor at 10 PM last Tuesday, folding what felt like my four-thousandth load of tiny toddler socks, when I went down a massive Google rabbit hole. I had just finished watching that two-part...

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A tired mother holding a baby in a simple organic cotton bodysuit

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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