Lindsay King-Miller

We’re always hardest on people who give into our own worst impulses, and I see my own shadow in those parents. I’m an over-sharer too.

Your period is a time for many things: comfort eating, getting into arguments for reasons you can't reconstruct…but it’s also a time to express yourself.

I am a compulsive memorizer. I am terrified of making a mistake, ever. But I'm learning to let go of my perfectionism.

The decision to terminate a pregnancy is often informed by the needs of the children a pregnant person is already raising.

She will deal with the repercussions of other people’s dysfunctional relationship with guns, whether she chooses to or not.

I never want my child to doubt herself the way I do myself. I never want her to feel the anxieties that weigh me down, though I know she already senses it.

For queer parents like me, meanwhile — although I know that my whiteness and my class affords me a degree of protection from scrutiny and interference — the threat of being deemed an illegitimate parent also serves to silence any discussion of mixed feelings.

Brands getting in on the body love game might be a positive sign, but in and of itself it is not radical. We need to make body love radical again!

The fact is that trans-exclusionary feminists and misogynists are, despite some trivial differences, basically on the same side.

I keep waiting for the wane of the “gender reveal party,” one of the most widely-disparaged-on-social-media parenting trends.