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A mom looking exhausted holding a laughing six-month-old baby on an organic blanket.

The Honest Truth About When Do Babies Laugh (And Why I Stopped Trying)

It was 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I was standing in the middle of the nursery wearing a milk-stained nursing bra and sweatpants I hadn’t washed in a week, making aggressive, high-pitched monkey noises at my three-week-old son, Leo....

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Exhausted dad holding two toddlers while trying to dodge a flying wooden block

Why "hit me baby one more time" is my parenting reality

Last Tuesday at our local library's rhythm and rhyme session, Florence landed a shockingly accurate left hook directly onto my nose just as we were gearing up for the second verse of The Wheels on the Bus. The elderly librarian...

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