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NYC homeless man hurls cell phone at baby in stroller during Bryant Park horror attack: cops
1+ day, 8+ hour ago (154+ words) A crazed homeless man went on a rampage in Manhattan’s Bryant Park Saturday in which he hurled a cell phone at a mother and her infant in a stroller — striking the child in the arm, cops said. Around 10:00 a.m....
We set out to bring our baby to 10 countries before her first birthday. Our travels kicked off when she was a month old.
2+ day, 16+ hour ago (1077+ words) When our first daughter was born last April, we spotted a rare window in our lives where we could travel extensively and get our baby a few passport stamps before she turned 1. My wife had a year of maternity leave,…...
The Researchers Who Want Dads-to-Be to Stop Drinking
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (826+ words) Pretty much everyone knows that women aren’t supposed to have alcohol while they’re pregnant. Even just a drink a day, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists warns, can cause lifelong problems with a baby’s coordination, behavior, and learning....
The Only Thing Riskier Than Telling an Abortion Joke
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (1375+ words) On a recent night at a renovated warehouse in Brooklyn, the comedian Alison Leiby stood in front of a crowd that included her parents and cousin, her publicist and some of her closest friends and favorite comics, and opened with…...
We shared a hotel room with 3 generations for 10 days. I thought it would be a nightmare, but it brought us closer than ever.
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (786+ words) My family is very close. Six years ago, we moved from South Carolina to Virginia, and my 74-year-old mother-in-law followed us, settling into a converted barn on our property. Our 11-year-old son has grown up with the rare gift of…...
Is This Really the End of Reading?
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (970+ words) Few things are more intuitive about the smartphone era than the fact that devices have torpedoed our interest in reading and dragged down the status that books and their authors once seemed to enjoy. You can tally the signs....
I stopped parenting my 5 kids when they went to college. It changed our relationship.
4+ day, 12+ hour ago (530+ words) When my children enrolled in college, I decided to step away from supervising their education. I would no longer keep too close an eye on their grades or class performance. I confess that it was a selfish decision, but as…...
I was nervous to camp alone with my 9-year-old son, so we tried glamping. It was the perfect adventure with less stress.
4+ day, 23+ hour ago (640+ words) While my Scottish husband joined the Tartan Army in Boston for the group stages of the FIFA World Cup, I wanted to do something equally exciting with my 9-year-old son. A few of his friends had recently gone camping and…...
At 38, I didn’t want to waste time trying to get pregnant. Our employers’ fertility benefits let us skip straight to
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (437+ words) It was just my husband and me at our kitchen table. All of the IVF supplies were out. Somehow, there were too many instructions, but also not enough. How do we know we’re mixing the medicine correctly? What if there’s…...
How Sam Neill reconnected with his son 25 years after placing him for adoption
6+ day, 17+ hour ago (423+ words) Sam Neill detailed his “unusual” family and how he reconnected with his son Andrew 25 years after placing him up for adoption. Over a decade before Neill’s death, he told the Sunday Times in a rare comment about his family that…...