How to Make Better Joint Decisions With Your PartnerThis is how to sidestep the most common — and frustrating — parts of decision-making and come together as a unit.
How a Virtual Assistant Taught Me to Appreciate BusyworkI recently downloaded a virtual assistant that promised to ease the burdens of modern parenthood. The app is called Yohana, and it offered to handle a pile of tasks on my behalf.
How do you get siblings to be nice to each other? Latino families have an answerThe Science of Siblings is a new series exploring the ways our siblings can influence us, from our money and our mental health all the way down to our very molecules. We'll be sharing these stories over the next several weeks.
We Left Our Child With His Grandpa and a Teenage Babysitter. I Wish I Didn’t Have to Say the Rest.Care and Feeding is Slate’s parenting advice column. Have a question for Care and Feeding? Submit it here. I’ve never really liked my father-in-law, “David,” but up until last week, I thought my feelings just represented ordinary not-getting-along-with-the-in-laws.
I Wake Up At 5 A.M. To Drink Coffee And Watch TV AloneThe 5 A.M. club isn’t just for boss babes and business bros. It’s also for moms who want some peace.
I Poured My Sweat and Tears Into My Mom’s Old House. Now My Sister-in-Law Wants to Waltz Right In.My mom was a hoarder. In her will, she left her house to be split between me and my brother. The city condemned the house and while it had great bones it needed a lot of cleanup and work. My brother and his wife rent but they have small children and zero interest in working on the house.
11 Great Shows You Can’t Find Streaming Anywhere (and Why)When Andre Braugher died unexpectedly at the end of 2023, everyone was reminded that one of his best works, and one of the best shows in TV history, Homicide: Life on the Street, wasn’t available to watch in his honor.
Sleep training: Life preserver for parents or "symptom of capitalism"?Well, I'm back. After a lengthy parental leave, when publication of the Planet Money newsletter decreased in frequency, I'm now working full-time and the newsletter will go back to being published weekly.
The Unexpected Hero of My Baking RepertoireOne day last year in Paris, I went to the Musée de Cluny, a temple to the tactile esoterica of medieval France. I remember seeing braids of wooden hair, a marble gown sculpted in almost calligraphic lines, and a rose made out of gold, all of which seemed to defy conventional physics.
How to Tell If Your Internet Provider Is Ripping You OffThose who have long been upset about their opaque data bills might finally get a glimpse of what they’re really paying for. Starting Wednesday, the Federal Communication Commission’s “nutrition labels” we’ve been promised for years are now fully enforced.
This teen was poisoned by carbon monoxide on the job. His parents say the employer got off easyWhen Wil Krotenko got his first part time job in the meat department of the local Co-op grocery store last summer, the then 14-year-old couldn't wait to start making his own money — never imagining the job could kill him a few months later. The teen, who lives in Canora, Sask.
Tortured Poets Department: All the Lyrics, Conspiracies, and Easter EggsDepending on whom you ask, April 19 holds cultural significance for Anglo-American relations in one of two ways: On this day in 1775, rebel colonists finally clashed with British redcoats at Lexington and Concord, which jumpstarted the Revolutionary War — an explosive split with a perceived oppres
The Unforgettable Power of Anna SawaiThe following interview contains spoilers for Shōgun episode 9. When the credits roll on Shōgun’s penultimate episode, Anna Sawai knows exactly what will last in the audience’s mind. “The explosion scene?” she asks. Yes, the explosion scene.
Lauren Oyler and the Critic in the Internet AgeIn No Judgment, the novelist and critic explores the perilous activity of literary criticism in the era of social media. Like many great literary critics before her, Lauren Oyler wrote a novel as her first book.
How Parents Can Heal Rifts with Their Adult ChildrenThis piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. To learn more, go here. Two parents reached out to me recently after their grown son cut off contact with them.