I want more children, but I’m terrified of experiencing another miscarriage and being left to go septic or something if they ...

My college roommate, Emma, notes that while few people are comfortable wielding a direct criticism of a fellow adult, they’re absolutely relaxed about assessing your baby. Emma lives in Oxford, ...

Kids rarely come home from school on February 14th with a feeling of having loved and been loved. Instead, they come home with a bunch of trash.

When I was pregnant with my first baby, I enrolled us in the multi-evening childbirth education course offered by our HMO, where my husband and I sat in a little circle with other couples and took ...

Looking back, I would not want to have been my mother. But I would want to be her friend.

Around 4PM every evening, my mood descends perfectly in time with the sun. I am creatively depleted from a day of trying to write, my husband usually still has a few more hours of work to do, and ...

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...

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 ...

Managing the transition back to work after having a kid is both a learned skill and an identity shift: You are becoming a working parent. And though we don’t have a lot of public conversations ...