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They may play well in some arenas, but when it comes to protecting kids from sexual abuse, they can backfire — badly. As an ...
I wasn’t going to let another relationship head off my dreams of starting a family. Even if it was a really, really good one.
Once, in town to help me take care of our 6-month-old while her son was traveling, my mother-in-law and I watched a movie ...
You know those TikTok “Clean With Me” videos where some woman does a voiceover that’s like, “My anxiety has been really bad lately and that’s why there’s 8,000 loads of laundry on my ...
A few months ago, I was enjoying an adult beverage with my newish friend Julia when she mentioned that every Monday she goes grocery shopping at the Berkeley Bowl, a beloved East Bay institution ...
Prioritizing our sexual connection has been one of the most valuable moves my partner and I have made, as both partners and parents. But when we brought our newborn baby home, sex was the last ...
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 ...
This year, my 9-year-old daughter was assigned her first research report at school. She was excited to learn new facts about her topic, and she was very glad she’d been partnered with a specific ...
As soon as I quit my job — a decision I made unexpectedly when my son was 8 weeks old — I began to encounter headlines that attempted to quantify my new role. “If SAHMs were paid, their ...