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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…
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Robert J. Davis
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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…
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Candace Mittel Kahn
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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.
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Bari Weiss
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Nellie Bowles
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How Motherhood Liberated Me
‘My daughter doesn’t care if I’m exceptional. She just cares that I am hers.’
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Raina Raskin
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La Leche League Erases Mothers
The charity that taught me how to breastfeed is eliminating women by calling it ‘chestfeeding.’
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Bethany Mandel
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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.
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Jonathan Haidt
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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…
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Abigail Shrier
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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…
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James T. Fishback
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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.
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Rob Henderson
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