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Frustrated dad looking at his phone while twin toddlers play on the floor

Dear Past Tom: The Baby Dragon Evo Is Not A Wooden Toy

Dear Tom of six months ago. You're currently sitting on the kitchen floor at 6:13 AM, watching Maya meticulously paint the skirting boards with organic oat porridge while Lily tries to negotiate with a rogue Cheerio she found under the...

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Did Simone Biles Have A Baby? Fake News & Intrusive Questions

My phone screen was the only source of light in the nursery, casting an eerie blue glow over Twin A's aggressively snotty face at fourteen minutes past three in the morning. I was trapped in that specific, hallucinatory layer of...

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Billionaire Custody Drama: What Real Parents Can Actually Learn

I spent my first two months as a mom trying to run my household like an intensive care unit. I had spreadsheets for dirty diapers and laminated feeding schedules taped to the fridge. It was a disaster. I was exhausted,...

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Searching for baby bowser: Screen time, hair bows, and pure panic

It was 6:14 on a Tuesday morning, a time when civilized society is safely asleep, but my living room looked like the aftermath of a minor coup. Twin A (Mia) was clutching the Nintendo Switch controller to her chest like...

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Decoding the Baby Booter Slang: A Dad's Guide to Internet Traps

My mother-in-law texted me at 7:00 AM asking if I'd installed the "booter seat" in the car yet. An hour later, a buddy from my old dev team Slack messaged me a laughing emoji and said I was officially a...

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A Letter To Myself About That Viral Playpen Panic Phenomenon

Dear Priya of six months ago. You're standing by the kitchen island right now. You've got a half-eaten samosa in one hand and your phone in the other. You're staring at a news headline and your chest is getting tight...

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A Dad's Panic Over iPad Search Histories and the Tar Baby Meaning

Dear Marcus from six months ago: Put down the cold brew. Stop hyperventilating over the iPad browser history. Your nine-year-old niece who's crashing at your house for the weekend isn't a secret 19th-century racist, and your 11-month-old son (who currently...

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