Parenting

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Parenting

Republic Pictures/ParamountThere are few things more primal than a parent fighting to protect their child. And seeing it onscreen taps into a universa...

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Organic Media/E+/Getty ImagesThis story is an “as told to” and anonymous. The mom in this story is a mother of three, in her 30s, living in the Southe...

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skaman306/Moment/Getty ImagesYou know that parental instinct when something just isn’t quite right with your child? You text your mom friends and gut...

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Celeste Yvonne has been writing and talking about motherhood for a decade. The Oakland native now calls Reno home, alongside her husband and two kids,...

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Johner Images/Getty ImagesFollowing the loss of Dawson’s Creek actor James Van Der Beek after a battle with colorectal cancer, and news surrounding ot...

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PixarIf there’s one thing you can count on when you watch the 1995 classic Toy Story or one of its sequels, it’s that all your heartstrings will be pu...

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AleksandarNakic/Getty ImagesThe Winter Olympics have been so empowering to watch, from seeing Lindsay Vonn going for gold despite an injury to Eileen...

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NetflixLike all millennial women, I grew up watching America’s Next Top Model with a completely uncritical eye. I was captivated by the crazy editoria...

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Apple TVIt took a while (read: literal years), but it finally feels like we’re past that post-pandemic purgatory of waiting for good new TV shows and...

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Old NavyI was recently chatting with a friend who had a “seasonal color analysis” done to see what style and color of clothing she should be wearing,...

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There are a lot of great things you can take from Disney when it comes to raising kids. Lullabies (“Baby Mine” from Dumbo will really get you in the f...