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2 days ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Skip to the content Asking the Trees for Help Care and Feeding Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, At a birthday party for a friend’s child yesterday, another friend mentioned just before the cake was served that she told her two daughters (ages 4 and 5) that if you eat sugar, you’ll get diabetes and your legs will fall off.
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2 days ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I recently organized my sister-in-law’s baby shower this past weekend with my mother-in-law and another sister-in-law from the other side of the family. Three weeks before the shower, I found out I was pregnant.
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1 week ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Skip to the content Keeps an Uncluttered Mind Care and Feeding Dear Care and Feeding, My daughter is 15 and has had a phone since she was 10. I’ve never really checked it, due to her being a good kid and me never really having any cause for concern, but yesterday I thought I might as well, and I discovered something I wasn’t expecting.
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1 week ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My husband, “Walter,” and I are expecting our first child in September. Two weeks ago, my mother-in-law, “Stella,” purchased a gorgeous set of baby furniture for our nursery. I was extremely touched. Then she put a condition on it that left me reeling.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
If it was another kid, we'd probably feel differently.
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2 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
I'd want my door locked if I were her.
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3 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Skip to the content Gibberish to Most Readers Care and Feeding Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I have two sons, one who is 7 and one who is 5. A month and a half ago, they began doing something disgusting: They will try and sneak up on each other and fart. Other times, they do it in each other’s vicinity. They think this is hilarious.
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3 weeks ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Care and Feeding Slate Plus members get more Care and Feeding every week. Have a question about kids, parenting, or family life? Submit it here! Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I are currently at odds over his sister coming to stay with us and our 2-year-old daughter when she is in town next month. Why? Because his sister is insisting on bringing her emotional support animal. Did I mention that her emotional support animal is a 6-foot ball python?
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1 month ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Skip to the content Care and Feeding Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, I recently learned my 6-year-old son “Jason” did something awful. There was a girl in his first-grade class, “Sally,” who he began making fun of by calling her “Cookie Monster,” and it stuck. I only learned about it when I received a call from the school asking me to come in for a parent-teacher conference.
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1 month ago | 
slate.com | Allison Price
Skip to the content Care and Feeding Slate Plus members get more Care and Feeding every week. Have a question about kids, parenting, or family life? Submit it here! Dear Care and Feeding, My husband and I live in the same area as my husband’s sister. When I became pregnant, my sister-in-law (who is a nurse) asked who I had chosen as my doctor. I shared the name, and she simply replied, “Oh.” That worried my husband, who asked why she responded like that.
