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A messy family bed with a large white organic cotton blanket and a half-empty coffee mug

Why Our Family Bed Needed a Giant Organic Cotton Blanket

It was 3:14 AM on a random Tuesday, and I was pinned to the extreme left edge of my own mattress by a sweaty, aggressively kicking toddler foot. Maya was three at the time. My right arm was completely numb...

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Exhausted dad staring at a massive pile of useless newborn baby gifts

The painfully honest truth about willkommensgeschenke fΓΌr babys

My mother-in-law arrived on day three clutching what looked like a Victorian christening gown and declared that a new baby must only be dressed in white lace. The DHL bloke who dropped off our tenth Amazon box of the week...

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A crumpled Pippi lΓ€tzchen bandana bib on a coffee table next to a half-empty mug.

Why Pippi LΓ€tzchen Saved Us from the Teething Drool Nightmare

I'm standing in my kitchen at 4:12 PM on a Tuesday in late November. I'm wearing my husband's oversized grey fleece that smells vaguely of stale coffee and desperation, and I'm holding my five-month-old son, Leo. He is screaming. Not...

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A cozy kinderwagen sack sitting in a stroller on a snowy porch.

The kinderwagen sack: A letter to myself about winter walks

You're currently sweating through your favorite oversized sweater, wrestling a screaming six-month-old into a puffy fleece snowsuit while your toddler dumps a box of Cheerios all over the mudroom floor. I know exactly how your back aches right now from...

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A sage green silicone baby bib covered in smashed sweet potato on a white table.

LΓ€tzchen Silikon: Why I abandoned the cloth bib fantasy

It was day four of baby-led weaning. My son had managed to work a single wedge of roasted sweet potato into his hair, his ears, and the space between his toes. But the real tragedy was his chest. He was...

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Toddler covered in tomato sauce wearing a wipeable sleeved bib

The Myth Of Aesthetic Feeding And Why You Need LΓ€tzchen Γ„rmel

It’s 6:15 PM on a Tuesday in 2018, and I'm standing in the middle of my kitchen wearing what was once a highly respectable gray sweatshirt but is now basically a Jackson Pollock canvas of avocado smears and despair, just...

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Sarah hΓ€lt eine ZahnbΓΌrste fΓΌr Kleinkinder im Badezimmer

Die richtige ZahnbΓΌrste fΓΌr Kleinkinder finden (ohne Drama)

Meine Schwiegermutter drΓ€ngte mich am Dienstagmorgen in der KΓΌche in die Ecke – sie trug diese furchteinflâßende SchΓΌrze mit den riesigen Sonnenblumen, an der noch etwas Mehl klebte –, fuchtelte mit einem Pfannenwender herum und meinte: β€žRubbel einfach mit einem...

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Crumpled bamboo duvet in a toddler bed next to a stuffed animal

Toddler night sweats, triage, and the bettdecke bambus solution

There's a persistent lie circulating in affluent parenting circles that a natural goose down comforter is the ultimate luxury you can offer a sleeping child. We bought into it. It was early November, the Chicago wind was brutal, and I...

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A messy pile of folded organic baby merino wool sweaters and sleep sacks on a bed

Scoring Big at a Baby Merino Wool Sale Without Losing Your Mind

My mother-in-lawβ€”who's generally a lovely woman but keeps her thermostat set to what I can only describe as 'tropical terrarium'β€”told me when Leo was born that I needed to dress him in thick wool from head to toe or he...

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