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Parenting

Stories Without Idealization or Comparison

"We sleep trained in three nights." "My toddler eats everything." "Our bedtime is the sweetest 20 minutes of the day." Most of these stories are true...

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Parenting

How to Stop Comparing Yourself to 'Perfect' Parents

The comparison feeling lands somewhere specific in the chest — a flicker of "they're doing it better, what's wrong with me." It is a near-universal ex...

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Parenting

Social Media's Effect on Parenting Confidence

There is a specific kind of self-doubt that did not exist for parents in 2005: the feeling, at 9pm with your phone in your hand, that everyone else ha...

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Parenting

Online Parenting Communities: What They're Good For, What They're Not

Facebook groups, Reddit threads, WhatsApp parents-of-X chats, Instagram experts — there's a community for almost every parenting question, and you can...

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Emotions

Social Media and Children's Mental Health: What the Evidence Shows

Social media and adolescent mental health has become one of the most contested empirical questions of the decade. The public narrative -- that smartph...

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