A new book suggests that there is radical potential in taking a career break — or "power pause" — to raise your kids.

I spent so much time trying to see better: first the years of early intervention services where my mom spent hours and hours ...

Before Akira arrived, like any pregnant woman having their first child, I had so many preconceived ideas about what motherhood would be like and what my child would be like. I would be a mother ...

Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...

When author Edan Lepucki’s son was in the fifth grade, his Los Angeles school went on lockdown. Through his Gizmo watch, he left a voicemail for his mom that pains Lepucki to remember even now.

In June of 2021, I met with Katie and her family to talk about their experience of Katie coming out as transgender in a conservative Southern state. Katie was 18 years old and grew up in a small ...

“Can I help you?” a shopkeeper asks Bandit after a particularly challenging grocery run.“I wish you could mate,” Bandit replies, referring to help with his rambunctious kids.Bluey ...

Parents who are delighted to not just support their kids' activities but pick them up, too.

Over the course of 18 completely unremarkable months of my personal life, one of my younger sisters got married, gave birth, finally finished her college degree, and announced that she was ...

In the fall of 2022, something remarkable happened on Instagram Live. Ashley Bouder, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, spoke with raw and emotional honesty about “body-shaming ...

As a good progressive parent, I teach my kids about consent. I teach them about gender construction and ableism and abortion and the dangers of colonialism. Being a white mother of white children ...

The internet I grew up with as an elder millennial is wildly different from the one my daughter will experience — for better or worse.