Allison Price

6 days 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, My 18-month-old has a lovey (stuffed animal). But he doesn’t know that we really have three of the same one. They are all in rotation, and every couple of days, we wash the one he’s using and give him a clean one. However, I worry he’s getting old enough to notice some small difference between them.

6 days ago | slate.com | Allison Price

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, My wife and I have a 16-month-old daughter, “Giovanna.” Recently, we had my very old-school Italian grandmother over, and what she did has left my wife reeling and me trying to piece things back together. Giovanna was rather late in getting her hair. Within the last few months, it finally grew in.

1 week ago | slate.com | Allison Price

Skip to the content Would Never Bore Its Audience 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, My younger kid, “Gemma,” is 10 years old. She has always been timid and shies away from the attention of people outside our family and her friends. And yet, her sense of fashion is so bold and bright.

1 week 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, My daughter and son-in-law have a 2-year-old son, “Clay.” Clay has reached the phase where he is exploring his body. I Want My Daughter to Have a Childhood Like Mine. But the Problem Is Her Personality. My Boyfriend Thinks His Pre-Sex Ritual Makes Him Dynamite in the Sack. I Disagree.

2 weeks ago | slate.com | Michelle Herman |Allison Price

Care and Feeding Our advice columnists have heard it all over the years—so today we’re diving into the archives of Care and Feeding to share classic parenting letters with our readers. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. Dear Care and Feeding, My wife and I have been caring for our niece, “Phillipa” (now 24), ever since my sister and her husband died in a car accident about 20 years ago.