parenting

There are a lot more moments you’ll feel like you’re a disaster than there are moments you’ll feel like you’re nailing it.

Parenthood is so chaotic that we find ourselves spewing words sometimes that we probably never, ever pictured ourselves saying. Then parenthood happened.

Being a parent has given me the career that I had only previously dreamed of.

11-month-old U.K. boy, Charlie Gard, was diagnosed with a terminal illness. Charlie's parents, Chris Gard and Connie Yates, fought for the right to take their child to the U.S. for experimental treatment and lost. Here's why Charlie's story is so important.

Parents — we’re the worst.

I learn something new from my children almost daily, in large part because they have generously made space for me in their lives.

No shame. No room for good, old-fashioned, parent-shaming from ignorant onlookers who may have assumed my husband and I are too weak to ignore the siren call of easily portable Apple products in order to avoid having to actually converse with one another when out in public.

Whoever is responsible for coining the term “terrible twos” and leaving the entirety of the threes out of the equation is sitting at the very top of my sh*t list. Because a little warning would’ve been nice.