Family A New Place: Strength, Struggle, and Apartment Hunting as a Single Mom
"I want to be strong. I want to be capable. I want to do by myself what two people usually do together."
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Family Totally Appropriate Responses to Unsolicited Parenting Advice
I’ll cut his hair when I know he’s ready: after he’s bagged his first werewolf, like his grandfathers before him.
Family The Other Side: Reflections on Motherhood at the Holocaust Museum
Rachel Klein on her only visit to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC, made years ago when she was on the threshold of parenthood.
Family “I never asked for this”: On Adoption, Luck, and Thankfulness
Matthew Salesses on adoption, family, and gratitude without obligation.
Family The Evil Eye: Travel and Talismans
"I wondered if something about childbirth had cured my lifelong superstitious streak."
Family Things My Newborn Has Done That Remind Me of the Existential Horror of the Human Experience
There is no remedy for the malaise of existence, even in a newborn's dreams.
Family Exposure: On Raising a Bilingual Child
Hope Mills on attempting to raise a bilingual child when she only speaks one of the languages.
Family Oddly Specific Fears For My Children
Jessica Roake has some very specific fears about the choices her children may make in their lives.
The Butter Loco Parentis: Not Sad
In her Loco Parentis column for The Butter, Aubrey Hirsch explains why she's not sad to be stopping at two kids.
Health The Waiting Room: You Have Kids, Right?
In her latest Waiting Room column, Kelly Davio writes about the question so many people ask without thinking.
Family Bloodier Than ‘Carrie’: Life with a Body, from Puberty to Childbirth
Ester Bloom on puberty, pregnancy, and how she came to terms with her body.
Family Un-Thorned: Fear, Faith, and the Genes Between
A mother reflects on faith, the fear that never leaves her, and her young daughter's anxiety.
Health A Mother’s Suicide Attempt and the Guilty Burden of Statistics
Katie Rose Guest Pryal on depression, suicide, and maternal fear and guilt.
Feminism How My Employer Put the “FML” in FMLA: Follow-Up
Karen W. returns with more on what she's learned from her terrible, horrible, no-good very-bad experience trying to take FMLA.
The Butter On Being the Mom of “the Foreign Kid”
Marika Seigel on the challenges of parenting when your child is "the foreign kid" at school.
