Can a childless friend give parenting advice? in Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

Can a childless friend give parenting advice? in Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. —Wanting to Help Dear Wanting, I know you mean well, but there is absolutely zero chance that your friend doesn’t already know that “if the parents operated on the same page and supported each other,” things might possibly be easier. Dear Care and Feeding, We are parents of an only child who is 8 years old, kind, funny, and a bit on the spectrum so doesn’t always pick up on social cues. Yesterday, when the neighbor boy was over, I overheard him tell my son, “My father doesn’t like that you make random sounds.” It’s true my son does have a vocal tic when he gets excited. Dear Care and Feeding, It must be fate that I found your column right when I’m trying a different approach with my parenting.

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How new fathers can make friends: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

How new fathers can make friends: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. We haven’t gotten involved in parenting groups because we are still freaked out by the germs at day care so we aren’t meeting fellow parents via that avenue. Her parents are also not vaccinated and will post all over social media that it’s “oppressive” to demand kids and adults wear masks to …

Conspiracy theorist relatives: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

Conspiracy theorist relatives: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Please don’t use the word “insane.” I don’t think it’s a terrible thing for kids, even young ones, to learn that it is possible to love people even when they are … well, let’s use the words cranks and crackpots. And I think the oldest of the younger kids can be talked …

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, …

Teacher student pool party: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
4 years, 6 months ago

Teacher student pool party: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Dear Care and Feeding, Last weekend, my wife’s and my mutual friend had a pool party for her 16-year-old daughter’s birthday party. Dear Care and Feeding, I’m six-months pregnant with my first child, and a few generous, lovely friends and family members have already requested our registry info and begun mailing us …

Dating a friend’s widow or widower: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
55 years, 2 months ago

Dating a friend’s widow or widower: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. However, my boyfriend’s 12-year-old daughter, “Polly,” isn’t having an easy time. —Tightlipped in Toronto Dear Tightlipped, You shouldn’t feel “guilty” for refraining from doing something that triggers an uncomfortable reaction from your very small daughter. Dear Care and Feeding, My son’s high school sports team expects each player to sell at least …

Slumber party guest lists: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
5 years, 8 months ago

Slumber party guest lists: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Each time this happens, it causes all sorts of hurt feelings for her—“Bethany was invited to sleep over, but I wasn’t”—and frankly I can’t understand why any parent would allow their daughter to have this kind of party. Regardless of how he identifies in the future, I can’t help but feel like …

The surprise bris: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
5 years, 10 months ago

The surprise bris: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. I’ve done everything short of saying “Because I don’t want to host a penis party to expose my son to the world.” Through my fiancé’s sister, we were warned of my future mother-in-law’s plan to host a “surprise” bris at our house a week after the birth! —We Do Not Want a …

Criticizing a friend’s parenting: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
5 years, 11 months ago

Criticizing a friend’s parenting: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. I pretty much know this is rhetorical, because my friend wouldn’t accept any advice from me anyway, since I’m not a parent, but is there anything I can say? By signing up, you agree to our Privacy Policy and Terms Sign Up Dear Care and Feeding, I’m expecting my first child at …

Independent toddlers: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.
6 years, 1 month ago

Independent toddlers: parenting advice from Care and Feeding.

Slate  

Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. —JOHNNY DO IT Dear Johnny’s Parent, It’s remarkable, isn’t it, how little comfort “this is completely normal, developmentally speaking” is when you’re in the freaking shit. !” mill will be, in a few years, a great comfort when other people’s perfectly-capable children are still standing around limply insisting that someone else put …

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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