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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.
Camilo Ortiz and 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.
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.
Erik Hoel
The Women Who Made Us
All of the clichés about motherhood are true. But there’s a lot more to say.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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…
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.
Candace Mittel Kahn
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