Dr. Seuss Enterprises continues to run its multi-million-dollar global portfolio almost thirty years after the beloved author’s death, but the specter of infidelity and suicide haunts the whimsical hills of his legacy. Read more
Don’t do it, I reprimand myself in my head. She’s fine. Don’t do it. She just moved a little. Don’t do it. Embarrassingly, she has not one but two life-detecting monitors (a motion sensor pad under her mattress that came with the video monitor, and a Snuza clipped on her diaper that is supposed to beep should she stop breathing.) Don’t do it. Neither is going off. Don’t do it. She’s fine, she’s fine, she’s fine… Read more
How do we depict the sexual realities of adolescence without harming children? Read more
My mother’s whiteness afforded me protection from a system that criminalizes mothers who look like me. Read more
An adult who is reluctant to clearly and effectively correct such careless and damaging behavior by children is complicit. Read more
An adult who is reluctant to clearly and effectively correct such careless and damaging behavior by children is complicit. Read more
Welcome to our latest Bad Advice column! Stay tuned every Tuesday for more terrible guidance based on actual letters. Read more
The way we talk about ‘adulting’ is classist. Read more
“What if I’ve always liked the looks of my own life much better than those of the ones I saw around me? . . . What if I have become sure that personal freedom is the thing I hold most dear?” Read more
What I struggle with most is not what I don’t know, but what I do. Read more
