The Tongue Tie Conundrum
Slate · 8 minMore and more babies are receiving this controversial diagnosis, and parents are getting conflicting advice. Here’s how to navigate the confusion.
More and more babies are receiving this controversial diagnosis, and parents are getting conflicting advice. Here’s how to navigate the confusion.
My spouse thinks so, but we both work full time. Is this fair?
A teacher, psychologist, crisis-line supervisor, and others share their suggestions for what you can do.
Everything you wanted to know about the science and history of stomping on the toy blocks.
Between 1 and 5 percent of U.S. adoptions get legally dissolved each year. Some children are put up for “second-chance adoptions.”
Anne Helen Petersen, the author of the new book Can’t Even, traces some of a generation’s malaise back to its upbringing.
My college dorm was the first place I had reliable home internet access, and that was in part because my mom shared all the late 1990s and early 2000s parenting fears about the internet breaking our brains.
The language of touch binds our minds and bodies to the broader social world. What happens when touch becomes taboo?
Not many people leave ultra-Orthodox Jewish communities. Most who do try to keep it secret, because, if everyone knew, the marriage prospects of their siblings could be irreparably damaged. The shame of leaving is very great.
Find out what triggers happiness hormones and how to make the most of them.
There’s a mere 18-month age gap between this proud mom and her baby – and thanks to the wonders of science, the record-breaking infant is technically 27 years old.
Millennials are moving back in with their parents in numbers not seen since the Great Depression. Here’s what it’s like for some of them. In some ways, Ryan, 30, is the prototypical slow-motion boomerang adult.
Prenatal testing is changing who gets born and who doesn’t. This is just the beginning. Every few weeks or so, Grete Fält-Hansen gets a call from a stranger asking a question for the first time: What is it like to raise a child with Down syndrome?
Iwas recently scrolling through Christmas films at the cinema opposite the kids’ school, picturing the happy scene where I arrive unexpectedly outside the gates, on 17 December or thereabouts, wearing flashing reindeer horns, and bear them off to see It’s a Wonderful Life, which they will then r
LeAnne Simpson’s 6-year-old daughter had thrown plenty of tantrums before the pandemic. But after a few weeks of lockdown, minor frustrations that used to lead to short-lived outbursts were now setting off writhing-on-the-floor freakouts.
Legions of fans are taking their cues from a hyper-rational, best-selling Brown University professor whose version of economics is keeping them sane.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My young adult stepson moved back in with us. He’s generally an easy person to live with, and we are happy he’s here with us.
I think I’ll be ready for kids in about two years. Once I get my life sorted out and achieve a few of my big goals—which will definitely happen in my thirties—then I’m totally ready for a kid or two! Thing is, kids are expensive.
When pandemic-weary adolescents get to take a break, what should they do with themselves? The main aim, of course, should be to feel better after the break than before it. But different downtime choices lead to different kinds of relief.
How has Covid affected our intimate lives? I’m not talking about sex – my family have suffered enough – but has the unrelenting closeness of this year opened or closed up faultlines in our relationships? It’s complicated.
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here or post it in the Slate Parenting Facebook group. My children (10, 8, 6, and 5) have been attending school virtually since March.
The birth of Molly Gibson using an embryo from 1992 broke a record set by her sister, Emma, in 2017. The embryos were donated when the girls’ mother was herself a toddler. In 1992, Tina Gibson was nearly 2 years old when a couple donated embryos that were frozen in a clinic in the Midwest.
No response. A week passed as I wiped down every surface of my apartment, but those three hopeful dots never appeared. I began to face the facts. I had been ghosted during quarantine. There are clear but unspoken milestones of app-mediated dating. The first is moving your virtual courtship offline.
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