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The truth about viral audio trends and your toddler

My mother-in-law told me to physically cover my toddler's ears whenever a rap song comes on in public. My neighbor, who has three feral boys, said I should just let him listen to whatever because censoring it makes it a...

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What to Do When Your Toddler Learns 'She Gon Call Me Baby Booter'

When my two-year-old twin girls started doing a weird, jerky zombie shuffle around the kitchen island chanting a garbled phrase, I asked three different people for advice on what to do. My mother, over a lukewarm cup of tea, told...

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The Pediatric Nurse's Guide to the Perfect Smash Cake for Baby

I was standing at my kitchen island at eleven at night, aggressively pureeing dates to sweeten a dense, beige lump of oat flour. My son's first birthday was in exactly twelve hours. I had convinced myself that if a single...

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That Time I Thought My Baby Broke Every Single Bone

I was standing in the middle of my living room at ten o'clock at night, holding a screaming four-month-old, wearing a t-shirt covered in sour milk, and trying to figure out if human knees were supposed to bend that way....

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The Panic-Sweat Guide: Explaining How Babies Are Actually Made

It was a Tuesday morning, exactly 8:14 AM, and I was standing in line at our local bakery wearing a pair of black leggings that I hadn't washed since the weekend. I was holding a terrifyingly hot Americano in one...

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Raising An Honest Baby: The Myth That Is Driving Us Absolutely Mad

I'm standing in aisle nine at the grocery store, holding a wailing 18-month-old on my left hip while aggressively squinting at the microscopic font on the back of a lotion bottle. The cart wheel is squeaking, my back is sweating,...

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Spoiled By My Billionaire Baby Daddy: The Real Truth About Luxury

I was standing at the kitchen island at eleven o'clock last night, aggressively scrubbing dried sweet potato off a highchair tray with a sponge that had definitely seen better days, when my phone auto-played a clip from that ridiculous viral...

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The Newborn Spreadsheets: Confessions of a Recovering Stat Baby Obs...

Dear Tom from two and a half years ago, You're currently sitting in the glow of your phone screen in the hallway outside the nursery, aggressively logging "three minutes of unsettled grizzling" into an app that costs Β£4.99 a month....

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The Real Truth About Sweets and That Sugar Baby Candy

My grandmother, bless her heart, was sitting on my front porch in her favorite floral duster when she reached into her dark, mysterious purse and pulled out a sticky, half-melted sugar baby candy. My oldest, who was barely eleven months...

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