Kids

Why does his makeup look better than mine EVER HAS IN MY LIFE?

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

Logically speaking, I fully understood and appreciated the necessity for the shift, but my heart was far less forgiving.

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.

If I had hated my dad, all of this would have been so much easier. But I didn’t.

One thing is for sure: it’s a heck of a lot easier to bank your child’s teeth that to deal with coordinating banking umbilical cord blood as soon as a baby is born.

You should teach your kids what to do if they encounter a gun, but we as adults should do what we can to prevent that from happening in the first place. One group of adults who can be especially helpful on that front is pediatricians. Some of them are hoping to be part of an effort to reduce gun accidents by talking to parents about gun safety.

She will talk to strangers in the supermarket, at Target, at Toys ‘R Us, at the park, at the bank, and the post office.