By Emily Hashimoto — 2020
A queer author of color on the limits of language and the maximums of love.
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After a tough year for parents, a clinical psychologist and mom of three shares her favorite caregiving tools and tricks, from voice-recording buttons that ease separation anxiety to kitchen timers that promote mindfulness.
If you are a parent of a child under the age of, say, 10, it’s unlikely that you made it through the pandemic without coming across Dr. Becky.
Every generation, sometimes building on and sometimes rejecting what came before, develops its own ideas about parenting. For many millennials, the clinical psychologist Becky Kennedy, a.k.a. Dr. Becky, is the person whom they trust to deliver those ideas.
Research has found that having children is terrible for quality of life—but the truth about what parenthood means for happiness is a lot more complicated.
No career comes without risk, but early career precarity and minimal savings certainly raise the stakes of having kids in one’s 20s.
From sleeping in separate beds to their children to transporting them in prams, Western parents have some unusual ideas about how to raise them.
Most parents would agree that parenting is extremely complex and challenging. What works for one child, might not work for another—even within the same family.
Sarah-in-Seattle and Sarah-in-Stockholm are both white, middle-class, married, professional women with babies and toddlers at home. But their experiences as working mothers returning to work after giving birth could not have been more different.
Why the obsession with our kids’ happiness may be dooming them to unhappy adulthoods. A therapist and mother reports.