Joni Edelman

Don’t most kids feel afraid to come home?

You know what’s an epidemic? Making people feel second rate and ashamed, criminalizing them for something like having an obese pregnancy.

Good news: they'll probably grow out of it. Bad news: probably not until they are 23.

My decision to bed-share with my children despite potential SIDS risks has less to do with studies, and more to do with instinct.

You should know that she is a really awesome human.

The Interent is ugly sometimes. And raising kids using it doesn't always make it easier.

I don’t think anyone who has been to the spirited child parenting rodeo would call a mother who screams, “bad,” or who loses her temper, a “failure.” I think we all understand parenting is really really hard from the get go, and parenting a kid who won’t sleep, who screams and kicks and says they hate you, is its own challenge

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No, Bill Cosby isn't my dad. But he was like one to me growing up.

I just listened to my four and six year-old children (one boy, one girl) have a lengthy bathtime conversation about babies, growing up, m