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Is there any early-parental activity as fraught as potty training? Breast-feeding, maybe, but the anxiety that entails usually engulfs just one of the parents. No, getting your child—who might be a year old or 2 or 4—to micturate and defecate in the appropriate place can be maddening, and success or failure seems to dictate what [...]

It can sometimes feel like a lot of parents these days follow the same script, with only tiny deviations. Perhaps it’s because we’ve all read the same books. We all had the same sense of indignation at Tiger Mom, the same vertigo while watching Russian Yoga Mom. And then comes a comment like this from [...]

Less than a month and counting until the Second Coming (a.k.a., my precious daughter, Ellie). I’m no amateur at this point, and thus, I haven’t neglected my prep work: sleeping in, watching movies, catching up on television and movies, and obsessive shopping. But there’s really no way to get ready, is there? Forget all the [...]

In recent weeks, we’ve run a few items about the cutting edge fashion revolution in diapers. We’ve also discussed how diaper companies are only now beginning to recognize that men actually change diapers from time to time. Frankly, I always just thought diaper marketing was about moving units (zing!). But apparently not. Here’s an ad [...]