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Parenting advice on mom friends, pregnancy, and gender reveal parties.

Dear Care and Feeding, I was raised in a multigenerational household. My mother was a single parent for most of my childhood, and at various times in my life, we lived with my maternal grandparents and my maternal great-grandmother. My great-grandmother was quite advanced in her age; she actually lived to be over 100 and died when I was 12. Since my mom and grandparents both worked, my great-grandmother was often my primary babysitter. My great-grandma was born in 1908. She had one of those ha...

Dear Care and Feeding: I Left the Love of My Life Because I Don’t Want Kids Slate 1/24/2021 © Provided by Slate Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by tommaso79/iStock/Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Dear Care and Feeding, I’m one of those letter writers who probably just needs to hear someone say what I already know. A few months ago I ended a five-year relationship with someone I still love dearly because...

Dear Care and Feeding, I’m one of those letter writers who probably just needs to hear someone say what I already know. A few months ago I ended a five-year relationship with someone I still love dearly because I couldn’t see a way to agree on a future family. When we talked about kids earlier in the relationship, my perception was that both of us were pretty ambivalent. (In my experience, “maybe someday” is what twentysomething men say when they haven’t given it a lot of thought.) No...

Parenting advice on doll names, dad distress, and pandemic newborns.

Dear Care and Feeding: My In-Laws Gifted My Daughter a Stuffed Dead Rabbit. She Loves It. Slate 1/17/2021 © Provided by Slate Photo illustration by Slate. Photo by Getty Images Plus. Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Dear Care and Feeding, My 5-year-old daughter, “Maya,” loves rabbits. She loves books about rabbits. She loves movies about rabbits. When she sees an actual rabbit in the wild, it’s the highlight of her week. Sh...

Parenting advice on micromanaging spouses, diverse communities, and preparing for parenthood.

Parenting advice on micromanaging spouses, diverse communities, and preparing for parenthood.

Parenting advice on children’s privacy, holidays, and guardianship.

th Circuit. The Senate confirmed Erickson to the 8 th Circuit on Sept. 28, 2017, by a vote of 95–1. He received the most votes of any of Trump’s appeals court nominees. Erickson previously served on the U.S. District Court for the District of North Dakota, to which George W. Bush appointed him in 2003. Age: 61 A daily email update of the stories you need to read right now. We encountered an issue signing you up. Please try again. Please enable javascript to use form. ...