And yet, I find a way to make it there, with whatever I’ve put aside to spend, to take a few hours to try on the dozens of ...

All of Romoer's content about parenting and raising kids ages 8-12.

It was November of 2020 and I was under the blue skies of Palm Springs, alone for the first time in nine entire months. I was experiencing that particular brand of tired and dumb that only comes ...

I was flat on my back under fluorescent lights, bellowing. The epidural had failed. The nitrous oxide had made me puke. Nurses in training had given me rough cervix checks.

As a child of the ’80s, I spent my summer breaks either babysitting or being babysat. Teen sitters held a mythical status for me. I was in awe of the neighbor who walked me to the library ...

Before I became a parent, I watched friends, newborns in their arms, skip-walk around the room until their babies fell asleep. Others sat on exercise balls, rocking and bouncing to ease out one ...

You know those TikTok “Clean With Me” videos where some woman does a voiceover that’s like, “My anxiety has been really bad lately and that’s why there’s 8,000 loads of laundry on my ...

"We see you, cycle-breakers." I encounter this phrase regularly on TikTok and Instagram and I am, without a doubt, the target audience. Like so much modern-day online parenting content, at its ...

In the delirium of the newborn months, my partner, Megan, and I found ourselves completely bereft of anything interesting to say, apart from running commentary on our one subject and singular ...

We all know pressure backfires. Manse’s experience is a common one, as parental efforts to “solve” picky eating can end up backfiring because pressure only makes it harder for a child to ...

When Trump won in 2016, there was a groundswell movement to protect women's rights. Suddenly there were seemingly endless books and think pieces about where women go from there, and how to raise ...

Jennifer’s spreadsheets began in 2015, after she and her husband had been married for a year and were ready to have a child. The first spreadsheet priced out day care options near their home in ...