A new book suggests that there is radical potential in taking a career break — or "power pause" — to raise your kids.
The Internet I grew up with as an elder Millennial is wildly different from the one my daughter will experience — for better ...
Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don ...
Stand at the East Hampton train station on any given Friday afternoon between Memorial Day and Labor Day, and you will witness a reverse commute that defines the summer rhythms of the One Percent.
Forget about auntie. I’m in my old wives era. Not because I’m all that old, or a wife for that matter. Nor do I have any children of my own. What I do have is extensive experience with other ...
I woke up that morning giddy. Something big was happening in our family that day but for once it was not happening to me. I drove us to the urologist’s office, which happened to be in the same ...
In the fall of 2022, something remarkable happened on Instagram Live. Ashley Bouder, a principal dancer with the New York City Ballet, spoke with raw and emotional honesty about “body-shaming ...
“I feel like I might be ready but even typing those words gives me anxiety so maybe I’m not.” ...
If you are parenting your way through the first part of the 21st century in America, you may regularly tap into an always humming and sometimes throbbing collective anxiety. There’s political ...
I had a miscarriage a month into my first pregnancy, and like most women, I had no idea how to talk about it at work. I mean, really, I had no idea how to talk about it anywhere, or not without ...
Before my parents’ divorce, I never brought friends to my house. I didn’t want them there in case something set my dad off — usually it had to do with my older sister’s grades, or her ...
I always say my biggest competitor is myself because, whenever I step out there on the mat, I'm competing against myself to prove that I can do this.