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baby proof: an early arrival.
Last Saturday we welcomed a brand-new baby to our family. Calder Ruth Boyle was born, nearly four weeks early, just before seven o’clock on a sunny and cold February morning. I’ve chosen to be...
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stories and art in uncertain times.
Today is the first official day of distance learning for New York City Public Schools and for schools across the country. James and I have sketched out a schedule as instructed by Faye’s kindergarten...
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baby proof: a baby mobile.
I made a mobile for Calder over the weekend. She’s two months old now and despite sharing a name with a sculptor famous for his large, spinning works of art, she didn’t have even the humblest crib...
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cloth diapering at home.
This post is sponsored by Esembly, a diapering system for sustainability. We’re two months into diapering our third baby in cloth and I’ve never been more glad to proselytize. If you haven’t yet...
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make your own: canvas baby wipes cover.
I like things that come in neat little packages. This is not news. If there’s something that can be tidied, or corralled, or made just a little bit nicer to look at—I’ll find a way to make it happen....
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baby proof: what to read when you’re expecting, part III.
Last summer, when I learned very much to my surprise that I was pregnant, I settled myself into the reality by diving into books about motherhood and parenting. Some of what I read, I’d read before,...
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baby proof: bedtime stories lately.
Back to school? Back to zoom? Back to the kitchen table? I’ve sharpened pencils and cleaned summer’s stash of pebbles and sticks and tiny doll shoes out of backpacks. Silas is back to daycare this...
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baby proof: talking to kids about what it means to be transgender or non-binary.
Today is International Transgender Day of Visibility—a day dedicated to celebrating transgender people and raising awareness of discrimination faced by transgender people worldwide. For parents,...
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baby proof: magazine subscriptions for kids.
Summer is upon us and while I always picture long days of my kids lazing around and slurping watermelon juice from their arms and amusing themselves with nothing more than chalk and bubble wands, I...
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baby proof: meals my kids have eaten.
By roughest estimation, the total number of meals I’ve fed my children to date is somewhere around 8,000. It’s a ridiculous number and surely a faulty calculation, not least of all because it fails to...
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