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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.

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.

3 days ago | slate.com | Forrest Wickman

Wide Angle There is nothing quite like becoming birdpilled. I am not a halfway kind of person: When I got into movies, I turned thinking about movies into my job. When I got into running, it wasn’t long until I was running a half-marathon every weekend. So I know what it’s like to become obsessed—and to start seeing your new obsession everywhere. But during lockdown, I, like a lot of people, gradually became obsessed with birds—and it turns out that, with birds, they really are everywhere.

3 days ago | slate.com | Rich Juzwiak

Skip to the content Asking the Trees for Help How to Do It How to Do It is Slate’s sex advice column. Have a question? Send it to Jessica and Rich here. It’s anonymous! Dear How to Do It, I’m 45 and my husband, John, is 47. When I met him, he was a part-time model who was into many exciting sports and hobbies (surfing, rock climbing, playing the guitar, etc.).

3 days ago | slate.com | Kristen Mulrooney

This essay was adapted from the parenting newsletter the Pomegranate. Subscribe here. Last year, I responded to a tweet asking for unpopular parenting takes with my most Flynn-from-Rapunzel-swords-at-the-throat hot take: We should stop putting kids in strollers as soon as they learn how to walk. The replies, while in abject disagreement, proved that at the very least, I understood the assignment. Let me get my caveats out of the way: I live in a cute suburb that is fully unwalkable.