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On the heels of Roe being overturned, a formula shortage and the failure to pass the PUMP Act, the recommendation to breastfeed for “two years or beyond” was ill timed.
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Read an excerpt from Emily Oster's new book, "The Family Firm," which helps parents make better decisions for their kids using data.
Advertisement The purpose of a family mission statement is really to help you and whoever else you parent with articulate your big, high-level values. But Oster doesn’t see it as simply a lofty expression of ideals. Instead, it’s a practical document that will help your family sort through parenting decisions every day. “When I talk about creating the family Big Picture, I’m talking about these overall principles,” Oster writes in “The Family Firm.” “But I’m also talking about confronting, ‘What does Thursday night look like?’” To start, everyone who is a parenting sta...
A s 2020 winds down, we asked our regular columnist pediatrician Matt Thompson for a New Year's reading list for parents of kids at various stages of development. As the pandemic continues, "We should all have plenty of time to read this winter," he writes. "Here are some books I recommend for parents. Some are newer than others, but they are all good reads." It should be noted that Thompson himself is a fairly prolific author, having written more than 60 columns on all sorts of issues parents face. Among the most shared are "Helping Kids Feel Secure" f...