The question of whose life is more luxurious, who is more selfish, who is lazier, etc., is a genuine distraction from truly important issues that affect all families. Last month, Allison B. Carter posted a piece in the New York Times about her decision to be a stay-at-home mom. It’s not a “luxury,” she argued. […]
Isn’t this movement away from us and toward independence the central goal of parenting? I started my son in full-time daycare a few months ago, when he was almost 2. Before that, my partner and I traded off childcare responsibilities and got a ton of help from a nanny that came a few days a […]
I might be working from the couch in my pajamas, but it’s real work. So, no, I can’t make it to that mid-day play date. I’ve been working for myself exclusively from home for over a decade, my home office morphing from a sliver of kitchen niche, to a shoved in desk in the second bedroom, to, […]
