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(Please) Stand By Me

How a movie with zero girls in it became our tweenage favorite. For Slate

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The 25 Best Picture Books of the Last 25 Years

A package, with Dan Kois. For Slate

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Super-Motherhood

The women who have five or more kids think they know something you don’t. For Slate

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The Case For Leaving Strangers in Your Family Photos

Against Magic Eraser. For Slate

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Elf Is A Movie About My Life

Like a kindergartener at Christmas. For Slate

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The Beautiful World of Zoom

On a short-lived PBS show that once had more viewers than Sesame Street. For Slate

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Everyone’s Toddler Is Addicted to Berries

The millennial parent’s complaint. For Slate

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My Daughter is Obsessed with Gaston From Beauty and the Beast

And now I am, too. For Slate

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Playing Good Cop

How Officer Friendly got into American schools, for Slate

Rebecca Onion 10/7/19 Rebecca Onion 10/7/19

Who Are Feminist Baby Books For?

Their hearts are in the right place. But can a baby understand intersectionality? For Slate

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End of the Rope

Leashes on toddlers kind of make sense. Why do people scorn them? For Slate

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What It Felt Like

If “living history” roleplay can so easily go wrong, why do teachers keep assigning it? For Slate

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Playtime is Over!

Why it’s okay not to be the “fun parent.” For Slate

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Is It Possible To Raise a Kid Without Crappy Plastic Toys?

My quest to follow the principles of toy limitation. For Slate

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Your Childcare Conundrum is an Anticommunist Plot

Why we don’t have government daycare. For Slate

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Boyhood

On the archive of the 19th-century Nelson Brothers. For Slate

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Ode to Green Slime

How glop became a pivotal symbol of kids’ culture. For the Atlantic

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Honey, You’re Scaring the Kids

Essay on 1980s children and their fears of the Bomb. For The Appendix