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 ...

Can you tell me how to get to bed?

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 ...

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 ...

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.

From the ninth floor of the five-star Langham Hotel in Manhattan, I can see: a Pret a Manger wrapped in scaffolding, a Yankees Clubhouse selling licensed apparel, arched windows on a limestone ...

In late 2021, Rachel Platten was having the kind of nightmare day every parent fears. Her younger daughter, Sophie, then just a few months old, was in the hospital with a 105-degree fever, and ...