Parents across the country are thinking about how to raise Gen Alpha boys with more empathy and emotional intelligence.

It was 6 p.m., about a month into my son’s kindergarten year, when an email popped up telling me there’d be a lockdown drill at school the next day. I responded in a fugue state, replying to ...

I opened the calendar on my phone and confirmed that there were 38 days until my son’s bar mitzvah. My son’s bar mitzvah is ...

Sure, I’m neurotic, but it wasn’t just that: Infecting a newborn with RSV is a very real risk when they live with a Petri dish of a toddler. And this particular virus spreads like wildfire in ...

Is there ever a right time to start a family? Becoming a parent these days, writes Rachel Wiseman in the recent book What Are Children For?, can seem “less like a transition and more like ...

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There is something surreal about scrolling through Instagram and landing on a photo of your own child that you didn’t post. And if, like me, you’re someone who doesn’t share your child on ...

Even before I gave birth, I knew that I wanted to exclusively breastfeed my baby. After a surgery to remove fibroids followed by infertility, it felt like my body had been failing me at every turn ...

When news of the U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents hit my feeds in late August, I clicked on Dr. Vivek Murthy’s story in the New York Times with the ...