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 with the enemy.” There’s no question that adding any number of children into your life is difficult… and it’s also a classic example of the technical term “no backsies.” So what if you wind up regretting it? One redditor on the site’s popular r/Parenting forum...
Want To Improve Student Outcomes? Fix The A.C.
FG Trade/E+/Getty Images The heat dome that covered the eastern U.S. has lifted, and while that means many of us are breathing a (mercifully cooler and less humid) sigh of relief, the memory of how impossible it felt to function under such conditions is still fresh. I think my son put it best when he came out of his air conditioned room the other day and groaned “I can’t move! The air is the wrong texture!” And so it’s perhaps not surprising to learn that all things air — cooling, heating, and ventilation in general — can make a noticeable...
Is It OK To Teach My Kid They Don't Have To Be Friends With Everyone?
FG Trade/E+/Getty Images My son is 4 and just wrapped up his first year of pre-K, where he learned to write, count up to 200, and so much more. And, perhaps more importantly, he learned a lot about social dynamics this year. One of his biggest lessons came in the form of one specific kid, who more often than not would say something that would trip my little guy’s very sensitive trigger. So, I started wondering: is it OK to teach my kid they don’t have to be friends with everyone? We’d always tell him to be kind and respectful,...
“My Husband & I Prefer Masturbation To Sex”
Adene Sanchez/E+/Getty Images This story is an “as told to” and anonymous. The mom in this story is a mother of one, in her 40s, living in the Midwest. My husband and I have been married for 18 years. We really struggled to get pregnant, and went through years of infertility and struggles before we had our miracle baby when we were both 42. All of those years of timing sex and trying to hit our fertile window really took a toll on us, and during my pregnancy and our son’s first two years of life, I think we had...