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The Great British Baby Buggy Illusion and What Actually Works

I'm currently wedged in the doorway of a Costa Coffee in Balham, the rear left wheel of our double transport system inexplicably locked, whilst twin A attempts to lick the condensation off the glass and twin B practices a high-pitched...

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Why the boss baby characters explain your toxic toddler

Listen. When my cousin was pregnant with her second, the advice poured in like a leaked pipe in an old Chicago apartment. My auntie told her the older kid just needs to learn his place because the new baby is...

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Why Diaper Tape Fails When Your Tiny Infant Becomes A Toddler

3:14 AM. The bathroom tiles are freezing. Mark is standing there holding his phone, looking absolutely bewildered, while intense, bass-heavy Russian hip-hop blasts out of his tiny phone speaker. He was literally just trying to google "big baby tape" to...

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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...

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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-old’s iPad search history followed by a single skull emoji. She thought she had all the filters on. She thought she had...

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Why Skipper Babysitters Inc Dolls Terrify Me As A Parent

I'm currently on my hands and knees in our London flat, using a high-powered camping headlamp to scan the living room rug for a piece of pink plastic no larger than a grain of rice. The grand parenting lie is...

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Why a Baby Wombat Video Ruined My Tuesday (And Other Lessons)

It's exactly 3:14 AM on a Tuesday, and I'm standing barefoot on the freezing kitchen tile wearing my husband Dave's oversized tech-conference t-shirt from 2016, trying to explain to my weeping four-year-old why I can't sew a pouch onto her...

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Why Getting A Baby Turtle Is Actually A Terrible Idea For Kids

My index finger is pressed against the remarkably smudged glass of a terrarium at a strip-mall pet store in Beaverton, desperately trying to explain the concept of a "shell" to an 11-month-old who's currently attempting to eat my shoelaces. It...

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A Letter to My Past Self About Surviving the Baby Shark Dance

Dear Priya from six months ago. You're standing in the kitchen right now. There's a half-eaten piece of toast on the counter and your chai is stone cold. Your sixteen-month-old is in the center of the living room, bouncing at...

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