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Mayim Bialik on Attachment Parenting: ‘Very Small People Have a Voice’
Attachment parenting — that catch-all term for natural childbirth, co-sleeping, wearing baby in a sling and breast-feeding for a really long time — has got a new celebrity advocate in “Big Bang Theory”...
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Moms Judge Other Moms, But One Says She’s Sorry
Last week, mommy blogger Kara Gebhart Uhl issued a public mea culpa: she published a blanket apology for judging other moms before she had kids of her own. Uhl recalled her smugness with humility in...
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Who Is a Child? The Supreme Court Decides
When is a child not a child? That’s a question the U.S. Supreme Court was confronted with on Monday, as justices grappled with the increasingly unconventional ways babies are made. Assisted...
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Why an Easter Egg Hunt Brought Out the Worst in Helicopter Parents
I don’t know much about Easter egg hunts because I’m Jewish — the eggs we focus on in April are on our seder plates — but the little I do know is that eggs are hidden by adults and found by kids. It’s...
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Moms Say It’s Too Hard to Breast-Feed for the Recommended Six Months
The advice to breast-feed infants exclusively until they’re at least 6 months old is unequivocal: it’s healthier for mom, and it’s healthier for baby. But it can also be really hard. A recent Scottish...
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Some Assembly Required: Q&A with Anne Lamott on Grandparenting
If there is a doyenne of the parenting memoir, it would be Anne Lamott. Long before “parenting” was an actual word, an activity, a philosophy, Lamott chronicled what it was like to raise her son, Sam,...
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The Agony of Forging the Perfect Summer Camp Schedule for Kids
By far the worst thing about school — at least for working parents — is that it ends. June arrives, freeing schoolchildren from their daily routine of school bus, school lunch and school books. My kids...
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No Kids Allowed: Malaysia Airlines Corrals Children Under 12 into Special Zone
Last month, TIME’s Newsfeed shared the launch of the dreamily named Nanny in the Clouds, which pairs up travel-weary parents flying with kids with babysitters who just happened to have booked the same...
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Two TIME 100 Honorees We Love
It’s that season again: time for the big reveal of the TIME 100 — our editors’ picks for the most influential and interesting people in the world. There are some boldface names on this year’s list...
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Generation X Report: Men Spend More Time in the Kitchen
For nearly 25 years, researchers from the University of Michigan have followed the lifestyle habits of a group of 3,000 Generation X adults — men and women born between the years 1961 and 1981. The...
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Do Children of Same-Sex Parents Really Fare Worse?
Adult children of parents who have had same-sex partners sometimes fare measurably worse than adult children from long-term heterosexual married parents. So say the results of a new and...
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New Volleys in the Gay Parenting Wars
Is the discussion over gay parenting becoming the abortion debate of the new era? In the days since the release of a controversial study finding that children of gay parents fare worse than those of...
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The TomKat Split: Divorce in America by the Numbers
You may have noticed that Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes are getting divorced. Their marital liquidation was preceded by news of another: Dominique Strauss Kahn, former head of the IMF and former...
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Testosterone, the Power Hormone
What do the Arab Spring, religious Crusades and Europe’s revolutions of 1848 have in common? All were fueled by a surplus of hapless young men, according to Karin Kneissl — an Austrian academic,...
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When Men Stop Seeking Beauty and Women Care Less About Wealth
Men seek youth and beauty, while women focus on wealth and status — evolutionary psychologists have long claimed that these general preferences in human mating are universal and based on biology. But...
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Five Smartphone Apps That Promote Smoking
Marketing cigarettes ain’t what it used to be. Gone are the days of Joe Camel billboards and T-shirts or caps branded with cigarette makers’ logos. But Big Tobacco hasn’t given up on getting its...
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Kate’s Pregnant! Why We Care
When news of the Duchess of Cambridge’s pregnancy broke on Monday, a gasp of excitement went round the world. The hashtag #royalbaby took over Twitter, internet searches for “Kate Middleton pregnant”...
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Understanding Why Music Moves Us
They say that writing about music is like dancing about architecture. But why don’t we dance to paintings— or for that matter, buildings— anyway? The latest research hints at why. According to a study...
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The “Eligible Bachelor” List: How Quaint
Town & Country magazine’s February issue is out, with its annual inventory of “Top 50 Bachelors.” As editorial franchises go, this is so antiquated that it’s almost all the way back refreshing....
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The End of an Epithet: How Hate Speech Dies
A long time ago, I didn’t know I was a hebe. I was born Jewish and raised Jewish, but hebe? Never heard of it. That was mostly a function of geography. I grew up in a suburb of Baltimore with an...
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