Isbjorn/E+/Getty Images For the first eight or so years of my children’s lives, every day concluded with a bedtime story. Sometimes I could get away with one book but, more often than not, they’d toddle over to me with a stack of Mo Willems, Sandra Boynton, and Dr. Seuss. Trips to the library were done...
CAKES Body / TikTok The headache of figuring out childcare as a working parent is a canon event. Do you put the kids in preschool? Get help from grandparents? Hire a nanny? Do a nanny-share? A combination? Or do you get risky like me and just work from home with the kids running around? It’s...
TikTok We all remember where we were on September 11th. Me? I was in 7th-grade history class. And yes, I was one of those kids who watched everything live. My teacher (history, c’mon) turned on the TV in the classroom right after news started to circulate, and we watched some of the most horrific moments...
NineLives/E+/Getty Images Preliminary data from the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) reveals that the U.S. maternal mortality rate — already the worst among so-called developed countries — rose last year after post-pandemic decreases in 2022 and 2023. All told, 19 more pregnant people and new mothers died in 2024 than the year before....