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Diets Are Bad. Ignoring Childhood Obesity Is Even Worse.
Activists tell parents not to ‘fat shame’ an overweight child or make them go on a diet. But parents who refuse to tackle the issue are putting their…
Robert J. Davis
Bearing Jewish Children After October 7
‘Be good, be strong, and don’t forget us,’ my great-grandfather wrote to his son before he was killed in the Holocaust. We won’t. The new life growing…
Candace Mittel Kahn
Bari and Nellie Are Having a Second Baby—and They Have Questions!
We called our favorite parents for their best advice on the eve of another Free Press baby.
Bari Weiss
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Nellie Bowles
How Motherhood Liberated Me
‘My daughter doesn’t care if I’m exceptional. She just cares that I am hers.’
Raina Raskin
La Leche League Erases Mothers
The charity that taught me how to breastfeed is eliminating women by calling it ‘chestfeeding.’
Bethany Mandel
Jonathan Haidt: Smartphones Rewired Childhood. Here’s How to Fix It.
Phones have made kids sedentary, solitary, anxious, and depressed. But, says the author and psychologist, we can reverse the damage.
Jonathan Haidt
How Bad Therapy Hijacked Our Nation’s Schools
Forget the Pledge of Allegiance. Today’s teachers are more likely to start the school day with an ‘emotions check-in.’ Abigail Shrier on the rise of…
Abigail Shrier
Fentanyl Is Killing American Kids. Most Don’t Even Know They’re Taking It.
Every week, more than a dozen U.S. teenagers lose their lives to fentanyl. James Fishback reports on the unwitting victims—and the parents they’ve left…
James T. Fishback
Rob Henderson: The Three Adults Who Abandoned Me
My biological father, my birth mom, and my adoptive dad all left me. They also taught me the most important lesson of my life.
Rob Henderson
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