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Exhausted mother staring at her phone next to a giant box of diapers

Dear Past Jess: The Truth About Chasing That Pampers Rebate

Dear Jess from exactly six months ago, I know exactly what you're doing right now. You're sitting cross-legged on the rug in the living room, surrounded by three massive, empty cardboard boxes from HEB. Your toddler is currently using a...

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The Truth About the Country Baby Tee Trend for Actual Babies

Halfway through trying to pull a stiff, mustard-yellow flannel over my six-month-old's head, I heard a seam pop. He was turning a concerning shade of magenta. His arms were pinned awkwardly against his ears, trapping him in a sort of...

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The Absolute Nightmare of Buying Toddler Khaki Shorts

I was sweating through three layers of sage green bridesmaid tulle in a 104-degree Texas July, standing inside a rented porta-potty that smelled exactly as bad as you're imagining, frantically trying to unfasten a button the size of a baby...

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Why Most Toddler Khaki Shorts Belong Straight In The Garbage

Three different people gave me completely conflicting instructions about dressing my kid for my cousin's outdoor wedding last summer. My mother-in-law cornered me at the mehndi to declare that a proper beta needs stiff, pleated trousers to look respectable in...

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A baby wearing a dark terry cloth bib while eating pureed sweet potato

LΓ€tzchen Frottee: A letter to my past self about solid foods

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're currently sitting on the kitchen floor wiping sweet potato puree off the baseboards with a dried-out baby wipe while your son cries because he rubbed it into his left eyebrow. You think this...

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A messy but highly functional baby room with a wooden crib and changing dresser

Must-Have Babyzimmer Essentials (Minus the Pinterest BS)

I was sitting cross-legged on the floor of our spare bedroom at 2 AM, eight months pregnant with Leo, aggressively weeping into a half-assembled IKEA dresser. I was wearing one of my husband Dave’s old college hoodies that smelled faintly...

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Toddler wearing an organic cotton triangle neckerchief while playing outdoors

The Messy Reality of Children's Neckerchiefs

My mother-in-law stood in my Chicago kitchen last November holding a knitted wool scarf, insisting that if I didn't wrap my son's neck immediately, the draft would settle in his chest and give him pneumonia. Three hours later, a woman...

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An exhausted dad trying to fold a massive baby blanket over a pram

Wie groß ist eine babydecke? My British Dad Blanket Survival

The rain in the Tesco car park was coming down in that aggressively horizontal British way, and I was losing a wrestling match with a piece of fabric. Twin A (the escape artist) was arching her back in the pram,...

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Priya holding a stainless steel toddler plate with leftover mac and cheese on a messy kitchen counter

The soapy nightmare that led us to stainless steel toddler plates

Tuesday night, 6:43 PM. Kabir had just aggressively rejected a batch of organic mac and cheese that I spent twenty minutes hiding pureed cauliflower inside. I was standing over the kitchen sink, eating the lukewarm leftovers directly off his favorite...

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