When the fires first started to burn, Velasquez tells me she felt “what everyone was feeling: helpless.” She couldn’t stand ...

And I know the feeling of freedom can go away at any time — a medical diagnosis, job loss, even relationships. There are many ...

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 ...

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 ...

In June of 2021, I met with Katie and her family to talk about their experience of Katie coming out as transgender in a conservative Southern state. Katie was 18 years old and grew up in a small ...

Can you tell me how to get to bed?

Amanda Diekman knows what you’re thinking when you see her three kids running wild in the grocery store. She does not miss your side-eye when she hands one of her kids her phone to watch YouTube ...

After having her first baby, Caitlin Phillips intended to be generous with herself, and take a long recovery period before returning to running. You know — like, three whole weeks, or maybe even ...

Want to see parents of school-aged children get riled up? Simply bring up the topic of orthodontics — crooked teeth, crossbites, braces, retainers and more. Whether they’ve got children in the ...

Ten months after her husband, Hal, died, Rebecca Woolf posted on Instagram that she was in a new relationship. She hadn’t meant to “‘meet someone’ meet someone,” as she put it.