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Your sister’s kid won’t shut up, and he’s four months younger than yours. Meanwhile your two-year-old points at things and grunts, or just drags you by […]

Your toddler can climb up onto the kitchen counter like a tiny, determined mountaineer, but hand her a crayon and she holds it like it personally […]

Your kid just asked you why the sky is blue for the fourth time this week, and you’re out of patient answers. Good news: that annoying […]

Your kid just threw a full-body tantrum because you cut their sandwich into triangles instead of squares, and five minutes later they’re stacking blocks with the […]

Your neighbor’s kid is two and a half and already asking for “more juice please, Mommy.” Your toddler is the same age and mostly points and […]

Somewhere around month 14, my sister called me in a mild panic because her son wasn’t walking yet, while her friend’s kid the same age was […]

My kid once told me, at age six, that she “didn’t ask to be born” during an argument about bedtime. I laughed so hard I forgot […]

There’s a specific kind of quiet loneliness that comes from feeling like you don’t really have a personality. You’re in a room full of people, and […]

Have you ever pondered why, among the billions of humans who have ever walked the earth, not a single one possesses an identical palm print or […]