Why the baby fairy is a villainess trend ruined my whole week
I caught my teenage niece slipping her iPad to my two-year-old at Sunday dinner. The screen was a wash of pastel pinks, featuring a big-eyed, rosy-cheeked toddler in a frilly dress. I was tired. I was eating cold palak paneer....
The 3 AM Search for Goo Goo Babies Uma Musume and Real Life
The iPad was glowing with an accusatory harshness against the peeling wallpaper of our London flat, illuminating a very specific kind of 3 AM domestic hell. Lily, the slightly more volatile of my two-year-old twin girls, had just violently expelled...
Why The Filter Baby Concept Actually Matters For Your Sanity
I was standing in our tiny primary bathroom, the exhaust fan rattling like a helicopter overhead, while my oldest son Wyatt screamed bloody murder. He wasn't even six months old yet. I had just pulled him out of the bathtub,...
The Absolute Truth About What A Baby Booter Actually Means
It's 3:14 AM. I'm wedged between a cot and a towering pile of unsorted laundry, typing with my less dominant thumb while one of the twins uses my left shoulder as a surprisingly absorbent drool rag. I'm simply trying to...
What is a sugar baby: How one google search ruined my afternoon
I was sitting on my faded living room rug, picking dried oatmeal out of my hair, while my toddler chewed thoughtfully on a rogue cheerio he found beneath the radiator. It was a bleak Tuesday afternoon in Chicago. I had...
What The Bhad Babie OnlyFans Story Taught Me About Parenting
It was 7:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing by the kitchen island wearing a gray Target maternity robe that frankly should have been burned three years ago, just staring at my phone. Maya, who's seven going on...
The search history nightmare and the offline baseline
Maya texted me at two in the morning on a Tuesday. It was just a screenshot of her nine-year-oldβs iPad search history followed by a single skull emoji. She thought she had all the filters on. She thought she had...
Why I Spent Three Hours Googling Baby Saja Boys At 2 AM
Dear Marcus from six months ago. You're currently sitting in the dark on the nursery floor, the temperature logged at exactly 68.4 degrees, watching the baby monitor app like it's compiling a critical system update. You haven't slept more than...
The Truth About the Baby Reindeer Cast Before You Hit Search
I was elbow-deep in a pile of clean laundry that had been sitting on the armchair for four solid days, casually typing "baby reindeer" into my phone with one thumb. I was just trying to find a matching woodland holiday...