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Kathryn Jezer-Morton

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    Is Going ‘Camel Mode’ Inevitable for Parents?When you’re caring for young children, you are crossing a metaphysical desert of the self. It’s emerging from it that’s the hard part.
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    Learning How to Parent from a Warhol Factory Girl at the Chelsea HotelAlex Auder’s mother Viva Superstar was a Warhol girl. As a parent, she thinks kids need less micromanaging by adults.
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    What Exactly Is the Magic of Disney World?Adults who love Disney hear a siren song returning them to a time they fully lived inside a secondary world. This is nothing to laugh at.
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    Busking As a Family BandAfter a spate of troubles finding housing, The de la Mottes, a family ensemble of nine kids who all play string instruments, have landed in Harlem.
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    Bless This Mess(y Fridge)Where better to display the uncurated floatsam of our actual lives?
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    Are Helicopter Parents Actually Lazy?Maybe they’re soothing their anxiety, maybe they’re just choosing the path of least resistance.
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    Are New Dads OK?Male loneliness can make for a powder keg of bad vibes.
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    Cup of Jo’s Joanna Goddard Opens Up About Her Divorce“There’s something really nice about waking up in a house alone. It feels kind of quietly revolutionary.”
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    What If You Just Didn’t Clean That Up?Our ideas about cleanliness are stuck in the mid-20th century. Today, women can afford to care less.
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    Starting Over With a Divorce Registry“We don’t see these things as gifts.”
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    How Am I Supposed to Teach My Kids to Be Generous?Especially when “paying it forward” is just a quid pro quo turned outward.
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    What If We Make Affordable Child Care About Wellness?Then we might finally see some change.
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    Was ‘Adulting’ Actually Good for Us?If the self-help top-seller were written now, its lessons would look a lot different.
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    Actually, It Takes Real Skill to Be a MomfluencerTransforming family life into something people want to buy is harder than it looks.
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    Are There Any Kids’ Books Out There That Are … Actually Good?Wizards and dragons need not apply.
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    Would Unschooling Actually Make My Kids Any Happier?To help kids take more pleasure in school, encourage them to do their own thing — not schoolwork.
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    Can a 40-year-old Really Call Themself an Orphan?The death of a parent makes you a child again, but also an elder.
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    My Family, My PlaylistsThe soundscape of a house is a shared space where we can expand into our feeling of belonging.
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    Why Does Giving My Son His First Phone Feel Like a Trap?My phone has amplified my worst qualities and dulled my best ones. I got the SIM card anyway.
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    Why Do Moms Love Fall So Much?After months of ad hoc caregiving and catastrophic weather, the season and all its decorative trappings offer moms a less chaotic reality.
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    Why R U Mad at the Name Kayleigh?Online groups dedicated to making fun of “tragic” baby names are just showing their own class anxiety.
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    Sleepover Kits Are About Making Content, Not Playing PretendKids don’t need to glamp.
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    Now Is the Time for TreatsLeave your try-hard commitment to feeding your kids healthy food at home this vacation.
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    Vacationing With Kids While BrokeThere can be shame in vacationing as a family with little money, but what if broke travel is the best travel?
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    What Even Is a Resilient Child?An unexpected Instagram exchange made me consider how growing up with social media affects kids.
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    Rae Dunn Pottery Shards Will Form the Archaeological Record We DeserveThe simple designs conveying humor and relatability in momfluencer imagery have created a whole cult subculture.
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    Oxygenate the Family UnitExposure to other parents can help kids figure out, by trial and error, who they are within a community.
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    ‘Who Are the Bad Guys?’It’s the question my children asked. My answer: the moral cowards who slobber and grovel over money from the gun lobby.
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    What Will It Take for Momfluencers to Speak Up About Abortion Rights?Mommy bloggers have the power to mobilize real political energy — but they rarely do.
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    Sign up for Brooding, a Newsletter About Modern Family LifeDeep thoughts on modern family life.
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    Online Momming in the ‘Perfectly Imperfect’ AgeDid someone move the goalposts and forget to tell me?
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    You Can’t Enforce Screen-Time Limits If You’re Always on Your PhoneMy 3-year-old says “show me your eyes” when I talk to him while on my phone.