This essay was adapted from Melinda Wenner Moyer’s newsletter, Is My Kid the Asshole? Subscribe here. The other day, a friend pointed me to Arthur C. Brooks’ new essay in the Atlantic, “The One Big ...

Parents, here’s the sweet spot: helping your teen write a powerful, authentic college essay — without crossing the line into ...

Re “Parents Should Ignore Their Children More Often,” by Darby Saxbe (Opinion guest essay, Sept. 15): I very much appreciated Dr. Saxbe’s essay about underparenting. As a 20-year-old single mother ...

On the short biography required for apartment applications, we were careful not to lie. We let the imaginations of landlords reading our application fill in the gaps. With the sparse details we ...

Throughout most of modern history, the script for parenthood has been pretty straightforward: get married, bear children, raise children, take a cruise to Aruba, die. But today's child-rearers have ...

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