Daniel Lee/Moment/Getty Images Back when I got married *mumble mumble* years ago, I was adamant about a child-free wedding. Now there’s a lot I don’t understand about my past self when it comes to wedding planning, (Dear Past Jamie: were chair covers really something you should have been stressed about at any point in your...
svetikd/E+/Getty Images I’m fairly sure my parents had no idea where I was 80% of the time during the summer. Or, they had an idea but it was fairly nebulous. I could have been at Kelly’s house, or Becky’s house, or the Other Kelly’s house. Occasionally, I was with Other Jamie or Other Becky. (It...
CPSC.gov Back in the ’80s and early ’90s, kiddie pools were basically puddle-sized and it didn’t take much to crack the side or deflate it entirely. Sometime in the early-’00s, however, “kiddie pool technology” really took off. All of a sudden pools were higher quality and way bigger at a more accessible price point. But...
Elena Zaretskaya/Moment/Getty Images Kids have big feelings. That’s kind of their thing. Big, messy, chaotic feelings that can change in the blink of an eye. As parents, we sign on for that, and in the past decade or two, we’ve come to radically accept that fact. “All feelings are valid” has become a kind of...