When the fires first started to burn, Velasquez tells me she felt “what everyone was feeling: helpless.” She couldn’t stand just watching anymore, and that’s when she started organizing donations.

Last month I peeked my head into my son’s bed cave at 9:15 a.m. and whispered to him that I was off to a meeting, then to a friend’s house. When I squeezed his foot as I zipped him back in ...

In my work with parents who are caring for a child with an eating disorder, I’ve become keenly aware of the language we use when talking about kids and food. Our words can shape our attitudes ...

“If I could get an IV of Diet Coke, I would,” Daryl-Ann Denner tells me over Zoom. We’re sitting in our respective kitchens sipping on large Diet Cokes, also known as “LDCs” to the ...

Love is in the air. Here @luncheswithlovsin channels a little wanderlust to keep her kids full with a sandwich with airplane cutout and heart-themed fruit and cheese spread.

“I feel like I might be ready but even typing those words gives me anxiety so maybe I’m not.” ...

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.

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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 ...

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 ...

Five heavily documented teenagers describe mild embarrassment, a healthy fear of social media, and — get this — empathy for their parents. But what about their children, the kids they ...