Melanie Acevedo/DigitalVision/Getty Images Over Independence Day weekend, flash floods have devastated Texas Hill Country, claiming at least 90 lives, including 27 children and counselors attending Camp Mystic. While those who have survived the floods are lucky indeed, the damage is nevertheless traumatizing. No one person or thing can completely heal those wounds, but the Lost...
TikTok There are some tough conversations you have to have as a parent, but few are as existentially difficult as “the death talk.” Because children, understandably, start to get curious about what happens to us after we shuffle off this mortal coil. But unlike conversations about love, sex, taxes, or rotating tires, it turns out...
Instagram It’s summer, and that means travel, and for parents, that means one of my least favorite things: defending my right to travel with children. Specifically, against people who think I’m entitled for having the audacity to *checks notes* have my family on public transportation. Because, apparently, they believe they’re entitled to an experience free...
Natalia Lebedinskaia/Moment/Getty Images Before I had kids, I thought I wanted five. (I know.) My husband talked me down to three and then that number got a lot shakier after we had one. Eventually we were brave enough to have a second but Baby #3 never materialized because, as they say, “no plan survives contact...