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The Secret to Parenting: Do Less of It
Conventional wisdom is that child-rearing is stressful, all-consuming, and emotionally taxing. That’s nonsense.
November 3, 2025
Camilo Ortiz
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Julia Martin Burch
The Rise of Low-Tech Parenting
It’s not just our kids who need to be dragged off screens. It’s us.
September 2, 2025
Kara Kennedy
I Taught My 3-Year-Old to Read ‘The Hobbit’
You can teach very little children to read. I did. You just need to pretend like you’re in the 1700s.
September 1, 2025
Erik Hoel
The Women Who Made Us
All of the clichés about motherhood are true. But there’s a lot more to say.
May 11, 2025
The Free Press
Parents to SCOTUS: Don’t Force Our Kids to Read Books on Sexuality
The battle over whether parents can have any say about what their children are taught in schools goes to the Supreme Court on Tuesday.
April 22, 2025
Bethany Mandel
The Truth About Child Welfare in America
Gavin Peterson, 12, Jahmeik Modlin, 4, and Marcello Meadows, 10 months. They all died because government agencies are discouraged from helping kids.
April 9, 2025
Naomi Schaefer Riley
Jonathan Haidt: Taking Back Childhood from Phones—Finally
Americans don’t agree about anything. Except this: Kids belong in the real world.
March 27, 2025
Jonathan Haidt
and
Zach Rausch
Letters to the Editor: Two Personal Perspectives on Shaken Baby Syndrome
Plus: A tip from the great Thomas Mallon on filing expenses in the glory days of magazines.
March 25, 2025
The Free Press
The Junk Science That Gets Parents Convicted of Murder
A Texas man is awaiting execution for shaking his child to death. But even the detective on the case now thinks he’s innocent.
March 17, 2025
Jennifer Block
Should You Even Have Kids?
And what happens if we don’t? Plus: Parenting guru (and host of our hit podcast) Emily Oster answers your most burning questions.
November 13, 2024
Emily Oster
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…
October 7, 2024
Candace Mittel Kahn
The Most Important Job in the World
Introducing Raising Parents with Emily Oster—a new podcast with the brilliant economist and parenting guru.
September 18, 2024
Candace Mittel Kahn
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