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.
Help! I Nursed My Girlfriend Back to Health. Now I Want to Leave Her.Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Submit questions here. After three years, my girlfriend is finally getting over her clinical depression. She is taking her meds, talking to a therapist, and recently got a job. Everything should be sunshine and roses. I want to leave.
‘How Do I Find Child Care Without Losing My Mind?’Ever since my first child needed a day-care spot, I’ve found the process of securing child care to be extremely stressful. Spots are limited in my city and every time my kids need a new care set-up — preschool, before- and after-school care, spring break and summer camps, etc.
Joyce Carol Oates on Life as a MysteryIn “Late Love,” a woman who has lost her husband of thirty-six years marries a man she knows very little about. There’s a temptation for the reader to see something of you in the character, since you also lost your first husband after nearly four decades, and then remarried.
The Out-of-Touch Adults’ Guide to Kid Culture: 'The Tortured Poets Department'Taylor Swift released a new album this week. While the singer is 34 years old—practically middle-aged—her music speaks to young people directly, and they are speaking back. Less mainstream young people are becoming huge fans of a Chinese industrial chemical company.
My New Man’s Ex-Wife Has Proposed a Wild Living Arrangement. I’m Terrified He’ll Say Yes.Slate Plus members get more Care and Feeding every week. Have a question about kids, parenting, or family life? Submit it here! I read a book about being an adult in relationships and learned about the criteria for even considering someone as a partner.
This Week’s Sex Diary: The Woman Who Flies to Another City for Rebound SexEvery week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series.
Padma Lakshmi Walks Into a BarIn art history, the odalisque is a female figure in repose, her body splayed out for the viewer’s eye to devour. Ingres’s “Grande Odalisque,” from 1814, bestows her with an anatomically impossible number of vertebrae to elongate the languorous curve of her back.
What People Are Getting Wrong This Week: Chemtrails (Sigh)In this column I try not to cover topics that any normal person already knows are fake.
Is sleeping on your stomach or back better? Here are some bedtime myths, debunkedYou may have heard of the perils of sleeping on your back or your stomach. But, for most people, attempting to change how you sleep can do more harm than good. How did you sleep last night? If you’re like most people, you assumed your favorite position at bedtime.
This Week’s Sex Diary: The Painter Whose Long-Distance Boyfriend Has a New LoverEvery week, columnist Alyssa Shelasky asks anonymous city dwellers to record a week in their sex lives. The Cut’s Sex Diaries column, first published in 2007, was the basis of a 2022 HBO series. 8:30 a.m. I slept late, but it’s only because I was up in the night. I jolted awake at, like, 3 a.