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The Death of the Summer Job
When I was a teenager, the end of school meant it was time to get to work. Summers spent busing tables were more transformative than a trip to Europe.
Larissa Phillips
Tough Love: Should My Son Hit a Bully?
A millennial mom has seen a 5-year-old ‘punch, kick, and push my son’ at preschool. ‘What’s hardest for me is what this experience is doing to my…
Abigail Shrier
The Patriotic Case for the World Cup
To the Americans who spent their childhoods racing through the wet grass of suburban soccer fields—and who eventually traded soccer for something else…
Jillian Lederman
Two Drinks with . . . the Mom Who Prodded Trump About Childcare
Reshma Saujani went viral for asking Donald Trump how he was going to make childcare cheaper. ‘In this country, we love girls, but we hate women,’ she…
Kara Kennedy
How to Raise ‘AI-Native’ Kids
They’re vibe coding with the kids on Saturday mornings and using a bot as a 24-7 family therapist. Meet the parents who have seen the future and want…
Evan Gardner
Tough Love: My Husband Hates Our Life
A mom of two’s partner spends ‘all day and night’ crying in the woods. But she doesn’t want to subject the kids to a divorce. Our advice columnist…
Abigail Shrier
Give Your Kids a Screen-Free Summer. Plus . . .
Ben Shapiro on the new right’s ‘conspiracy problem.’ A new Broadway play about the oldest hatred. All the good don’t die young. And more!
The Free Press
I Gave My Kid a Screen-Free Summer—and You Can Too
After years of nightly fights over YouTube and Netflix with my 8-year-old daughter, I decided to hide every screen in our house for the summer. It…
Michaeleen Doucleff, PhD
Stop Protecting Your Children—It’s Backfiring
Childhood is supposed to involve contact with the world itself. Modern parenting has forgotten that.
Charlotte Grinberg, MD
How Ben Sasse Raised Me
My parents are fallible goofballs like anyone else. But there is something a bit different about the conversations at my dinner table—and something…
Alex Sasse
Judson’s Last Ride
My son is 18 and has profound autism. On Friday, he rode the school bus for the last time. It was his last link to the ‘typical’ world.
Sean Trende
Tough Love: My Sister Soaks Up All of Our Parents’ Love
‘My sister has chosen to have a baby on her own,’ writes a reader—who wants to know why her parents are helping raise her sibling’s child when they…
Abigail Shrier
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