How to handle moving: Parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

How to handle moving: Parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. During the time I’ve lived here, I’ve seen countless families move away, and I wouldn’t fault you one bit for getting a bigger bang for your buck elsewhere. We talked about it, with me presenting the stellar local daycare we can afford with upcoming openings as our alternate option and he said we couldn’t possibly ask his mother to stop watching our son because she said it “gives her life purpose she didn’t have before.” I don’t think it’s our job to give her life purpose nor do I find this level of preparation we have to go to so that she doesn’t potentially feel overwhelmed during the day to be sustainable. Before Covid entered the chat, there were many situations where parents sent their sick children to school and to daycare because they wouldn’t get paid if they didn’t show up to work. Instead use this situation to teach your daughter that sometimes in life you won’t get the opportunity to tell people off to get closure or an explanation.

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When stepsiblings clash: Parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
2 years, 3 months ago

When stepsiblings clash: Parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Slate Plus Members Get More Advice from Michelle Each Week From this week’s letter, My In-Laws’ Pushy Offers to “Help” With My Baby Are Driving Me Nuts: “When they are at the house, I feel like I’m being judged the whole time.” Dear Care and Feeding, Both of my children are childfree. …

Battles with exes: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

Battles with exes: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Even now, as an adult, these are the type of friends he’s drawn to, which has resulted in him thinking this is “normal” behavior. Today my ex told me that by teaching my son not to interrupt people, I’m “ruining his life” and “crippling his chances to enjoy normal social interaction with …

Starting a family: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
4 years, 5 months ago

Starting a family: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. I’ve always been upfront about my desire to be a parent but never thought of it as something particularly urgent, especially since I think I might want to adopt. —Baby Rabies Dear BR, I think if you’re having “swirling emotions” right now and have to keep them to yourself, you’re going to …

Parenting style criticism: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
4 years, 6 months ago

Parenting style criticism: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Dear Care and Feeding, I love my tiny demon child so much, but I’m sick of nursing. Advice seems to say just cuddle her and give her a cup, but she doesn’t actually like cuddles and again, the cup doesn’t dissuade her from nursing at all. For more of Slate’s parenting coverage, …

Staying close to biological children: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

Staying close to biological children: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. One is that there are likely to be some bumps in the road as she grows up, especially once she hits the tween and/or teen years—when she may pull away from you and there also may come a time when, despite her parents’ best intentions—and yours—she may go through a period of …

Confronting abusive parents: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
6 years, 3 months ago

Confronting abusive parents: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. It’s an expensive building, as is most every place in L.A. We mostly get along very well—except for a family with two small children, a 4-year-old girl and a 2-year-old boy. The neighbors who know about this hate what’s happening but don’t want to get involved; I think someone has to step …

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