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    The NYT Parenting Newsletter

    Why Your Brain Feels Broken

    Pandemic stress and multitasking can affect memory in a real way.

    By Jessica Grose

  1. PhotoAretha Cagno, 33, of Bristol, Conn., promised her sister she’d carry a child for her but never got the chance. She later acted as a surrogate twice for a single father.
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    Meet the Women Who Become Surrogates

    New York State will now allow gestational surrogates to carry babies for other parents. Here’s why they do it.

    By David Dodge

  2. PhotoThe author’s children, Wes and Zoe, are volunteering for the ongoing Moderna vaccine trial.
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    My Teens Are Coronavirus Vaccine Guinea Pigs

    A health journalist is getting a front-row seat to one of the most-anticipated pediatric trials in history.

    By Sheila Mulrooney Eldred

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    Yes, and … Clean Your Room

    Improv comedy can help us be more patient and attentive with our kids, and help them be more resilient and open with us.

    By Paul L. Underwood

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    Three American Mothers, On the Brink

    Eleven months, multiple breakdowns, one harrowing realization: They’ve got to get back up and do it all again tomorrow.

    By Jessica Bennett

The NYT Parenting Newsletter

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    Why Your Brain Feels Broken

    Pandemic stress and multitasking can affect memory in a real way.

    By Jessica Grose

The Home-Schooling Experience

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    What It Means to Home-School

    Portraits of families who opted-out of — or had to leave — traditional education.

    By Jessica Grose

What Parents Need to Know About Coronavirus

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Milestones

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    Your 4-Year-Old

    Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

    By Meghan MacLean Weir, M.D.

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    Your 9-Month-Old

    Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

    By Aaron E. Carroll

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    Your 1-Year-Old

    Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

    By Nia Heard-Garris, M.D.

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    Your 5-Year-Old

    Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

    By Nia Heard-Garris, M.D.

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    Your 15-Month-Old

    Use our developmental milestones to learn what most kids can do as they grow.

    By Meghan MacLean Weir, M.D.

The Price of Modern Parenting

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    Your Cheatin’ Wallet

    How to recognize financial infidelity and stop it from eroding your family’s trust.

    By Jancee Dunn

  3. PhotoJacqui Hunt, a New York schoolteacher, plays with her adopted child, Carina. 
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    What I Spent to Adopt My Child

    Three families share their adoption stories, illuminating the variety of choices — and costs — involved in the process.

    By David Dodge

  1. How Food Traditions Nourish New Moms

    Parents still turn to old recipes and customs for postpartum recovery.

    By Pooja Makhijani

  2. These Young Podcasters Are Growing Up on Mic

    The precocious hosts of “Tai Asks Why” and “The Show About Science” have matured along with their industry. For them, listening to their early episodes can prove a bit painful.

    By Phoebe Lett

  3. New Findings on 2 Ways Children Become Seriously Ill From the Coronavirus

    A large study found that young people hospitalized with acute Covid-19 have symptoms and characteristics that differ from those with a Covid-linked inflammatory syndrome.

    By Pam Belluck

  4. Gender Reveal Device Explodes, Killing Man in Upstate New York

    The explosion in a garage killed Christopher Pekny and injured his brother on Sunday, officials said. Another brother described what happened as “the freakiest of freak accidents.”

    By Christopher Mele

  5. The World Through a Lens

    On Horseback Among the Eagle Hunters and Herders of the Mongolian Altai

    Deep in the Altai Mountains, where Russia, China, Kazakhstan and Mongolia meet, Kazakh people have for centuries developed and nurtured a special bond with golden eagles.

    By Claire Thomas

  6. The Story of ‘Team Molly’

    While her daughter was hospitalized, one mother built more room for our national grief.

    By Katherine Rosman

  7. Hot Dish! The Newspaper Makes a Great Trivet

    Once the paper is hot off the presses, use it to cool down your pots.

    By Christy Harmon

  8. Entire School Board Resigns After Members Are Caught Mocking Parents on Livestream

    Unaware their conversation was public, district trustees in Oakley, Calif., suggested that parents eager for schools to reopen merely wanted “their babysitters back.”

    By Maria Cramer

  9. Is the Group Chat Sacred?

    Heidi Cruz learned the hard way that text chains can be leaked.

    By Jessica Grose

  10. At Home Newsletter

    What to Do This Weekend

    Read a book, no matter what.

    By Melissa Kirsch