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Should Parents Gas Each Other Up More?

All my husband had to do was explain to our children how hard I work to give them a good life. To my astonishment, they began to notice it. ByKathryn Jezer-Morton

Fertility

parenting Why Would Anyone Look for a Sperm Donor on Facebook?Meet the women logging on for fresh semen and the men who get their kicks offering their seed. ByAnya Kamenetz
celebrity Selling Sunset’s Mary Fitzgerald Is Having Uterine SurgeryThe reality star says she made plans for the procedure after suffering a septic miscarriage. ByEmily Leibert

fertility What If You Hadn’t Frozen Your Eggs?For many patients, egg freezing provides the comfort of possibility. But for some, the procedure can be so uncomfortable it no longer feels worth it. ByRae Nudson
health ‘All That Money Can Only Give You a Chance, Not a Guarantee’Three women who traveled abroad to undergo fertility treatments share what they spent and how it went. ByCharlotte Lytton

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Pregnancy

celebrity Baby Hudgens Has ArrivedThe actress and husband Cole Tucker welcomed their first child just in time for the holiday. ByEmily Leibert
style Get Used to Seeing Hailey Bieber’s BellyA roundup of all of Mrs. Bieber’s excellent pregnancy looks. ByBrooke LaMantia

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Babies

how i got this baby The Mom Who Got Pregnant While on Birth Control at Age 46“I didn’t think about how much work it was going to be until I was all up in it. And then, suddenly, I was like,What did I do?” ByYolanda Wikiel
family What Day-care Workers and Preschool Teachers Really Think About Their JobsSix women get candid on dwindling enrollment, priced-out parents, and crying kids. ByAnya Kamenetz

how i got this baby The Dads Who Adopted a Nonverbal 7-Year-Old With Autism“It was quite a frightening undertaking, to be honest. I remember thinking,Can we really handle this?” ByYolanda Wikiel
how i got this baby The Mom Whose Water Broke at 26 Weeks in a Foreign Country“They put me in an ambulance and transferred me to this huge yellow building that looked like a crumbling cathedral.” ByKristen Mascia

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Kids

parenting Summer Child Care Is a Special Kind of HellThoughts and prayers to any parents who didn’t make camp plans in February. Also the parents who did. ByAmil Niazi
parenting Passed Out on GummiesAll across America, kids are going to bed with a story, a kiss, and a potent dose of melatonin. Is there anything wrong with that? ByJuno DeMelo

parenting The Transgender Family Handbook144 specific suggestions for how to be a supportive parent to your trans kid, according to trans young people and their loved ones.
parks and recreation How to Throw a Child’s Park Birthday Party in New YorkHow tricky could it be to gather 25 kindergartners and their caregivers in Prospect Park on a Saturday afternoon? Actually quite. ByLaura Fenton

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Teens

parenting The Last Kid in Ninth Grade Without an iPhoneThey’re not in the group chat. But they’re not social pariahs either. ByLiz Krieger
parenting When Kids Are Addicted to their Phones, Who Is to Blame?Parents can’t change their kids’ relationships to screens without also addressing their own. ByKathryn Jezer-Morton

parenting Is a Sick Kid Better Than an Absent Kid?Health policies have grown more lax in an attempt to improve school attendance. Parents and teachers are split on whether it’s working. ByMelissa Dahl
power Police Give Update on Oklahoma Nonbinary Student’s DeathThey say a preliminary report shows 16-year-old Nex Benedict “did not die as a result of trauma” from an alleged assault at school. ByEmily Leibert

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Parenting Advice

celebrity Paris Hilton Has One Word for Critics of Her ParentingAnd for once, it’s notsliving. ByEmily Leibert
parenting Emily Oster Softens UpIn her new book,The Unexpected,the economist turned parenting expert examines life-threatening pregnancy complications that defy optimization. ByMiranda Rake

parenting Talking to My Kids About the UnbearableWhen cruelty is inescapable, what are we supposed to tell our children? ByAmil Niazi
profile Park Slope Parents Is Old Enough to Order a DrinkSusan Fox wanted to build a community. She never expected to birth an archetype. ByEmily Gould

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Parenting Trends

niche drama What’s the Deal With the Viral Influencer Couple Who ‘Boycotted’ Father’s Day?A Matt and Abby Howard primer. ByAllie Jones
parenting I Don’t Need Your Opinion on My Kid’s Screen TimeTalking about how you’ll parent someday is one thing. Surviving a kid’s tantrum so bad you question every choice you’ve ever made is another. ByAmil Niazi

parenting The Rise of the Accidentally Permissive ParentSome moms and dads who strive to be “gentle parents” unknowingly turn into indulgent ones, largely because gentle parenting is just too hard. ByElizabeth Passarella
parenting Are We All Secretly Co-sleeping?The answer, according to Instagram and TikTok, is yes. Now if only we could talk about it outside of the comments section. ByWendy Syfret

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