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Past articles by Janet:

Jim, We Need to Talk About the Serial Copy-and-Pasting in Your Work Emails

Hello Jim. Nothing says “hello and goodbye” as succinctly as a message that begins confidently in black and is otherwise entirely copy-and-pasted f... → Read More

Brad Meltzer & Dan Santat Talk Sunday Scaries In Their Forthcoming Book 'A New Day'

When no one ever goes anywhere, the days have a tendency to run together. Weekdays roll into weekends without much fanfare, and it's easy to take Sunday for granted — until Sunday quits. Such is the predicament faced by the heroes of A New Day, the… → Read More

A Guided Meditation For Parents With Goldie Hawn

There are infinite forking paths on the internet, one of which leads to a video Goldie Hawn posted of herself in quarantine dancing vigorously on a mini trampoline to Dua Lipa. Hawn, 74, was a dancer before she was an actor (and later a mother and… → Read More

Amanda Seyfried On Finding The JOMO In Quarantine

Anxiety has taken on a different shape these days. The proverbial villain in the rubber mask has been replaced by something invisible and shape-shifting. "In terms of what's going on in the world, I was always kind of afraid of everything," says… → Read More

Families Who TikTok Through Isolation Are Onto Something, Say Experts

I have begun to think in TikToks. I see days flipping from one to the next without my ever blinking; I rise and kick my heels down the hall again and again, as if I’m in a movie montage; my children's voices take on the beat of a remix as they tell… → Read More

Jacques Torres On Beautiful Travesties & The "Nailed It Challenge"

When the frosted bell jar currently sitting over our lives is lifted, it is going to be quite the reveal. Parents across the country are spending their days trying to save cratering toddler moods, paste together collapsing schedules, and dress up… → Read More

In 'Madame Badobedah,' Sophie Dahl Offers An Escape

Mabel, the very petulant, very young resident of the Mermaid Hotel, likes snacking on marmalade and butter, does not like ham, and is suspicious of the hotel's newest guest, the mysterious Madame Badobedah, in the peppy children's book of the same… → Read More

Chelsea Clinton Joins Operation Storytime With 'Crinkle, Crinkle, Little Star'

Nighttime is the final stretch of a long day for parents of young children, and picture books are getting us over the finish line — just ask Chelsea Clinton, author of Grandma's Gardens, vice chair of the Clinton Foundation, and a mother of three… → Read More

Jan Brett Has A Sneak Preview Of Her New Book 'Cozy'

Musk oxen are the new sloths are the new unicorns, you heard it here first. Jan Brett has spent the past year painting a musk ox for her upcoming book, Cozy, named for the main character. Musk oxen, or umingmak, are an arctic animal with an… → Read More

'How To Be A Pirate' Is Perfect For Lil Buccaneers

No one walks the plank and no one pillages anyone else in a new book from "former biker-bar employee" and former editor of Buzzfeed Books Isaac Fitzgerald, whose new book How To Be A Pirate, was snapped up by my tiny swashbucklers before I even… → Read More

Netflix's 'Babies' Documents Fatherly Attachment To Babies: Watch

Scientists have long pored over the maternal connection to a baby — the boost in oxytocin, aka the "love hormone," has been documented for a century — but until much more recently hadn't given fathers the same treatment. This exclusive clip from the… → Read More

'Gay Like Me' Is Unabashedly Worried About Our Kids

It's hard to know if we should teach our kids to worry about nothing, or everything. It's easy to nail up "Be Yourself" banners in their bedrooms, and harder to explain why it is has been so hard to be ourselves. This problem is universal, but… → Read More

Nicole Kidman Crashed Laura Dern's Red Carpet Interview & Ryan Seacrest Was Just A Guest

The genre of "celebrities running the Ryan Seacrest gauntlet" enjoyed a nice bender at the 77th Golden Globe Awards when Nicole Kidman crashed Laura Dern's interview up on the platform, and was shortly followed by Keith Urban (why not), and then… → Read More

Toddlers Falling Asleep In Random Places, These Are A Few Of My Favorite Things

One moment, you are reading a book or looking at an emu enclosure with an animated little soul, and the next you are toting their sleeping body about like the corpse in Weekend At Bernies. Toddlers are falling asleep everywhere — while eating pizza,… → Read More

Jamie-Lynn Sigler Doesn't Feel Like A Victim Of M.S.

"Mommy you're walking really good right now," Jamie-Lynn Sigler's 5-year-old will tell her from time to time. Or sometimes, "Mommy you're doing a really good job." Sigler has worked to make sure her children, aged 1 and 5, understand her diagnosis… → Read More

The Lessons From Australia's Immigration Stance Are Clear

When President Donald Trump says he wants a wall, what he really wants is an ocean. That’s the gist of his support for Australia’s hard-line stance on immigration, which is defined by remote and offshore detention centers and a no-tolerance policy… → Read More

Toddlers Love Playing With Hair, & It's Worth At Least $300 + Tip

Sometimes I go through the whole haircut thing just for the moment in the beginning where the hair stylist plays with your hair as you discuss The Inspiration. Now that I have toddlers who love nothing better than cracking out the stylist tools, I… → Read More

Vanessa Bayer Wants You To Focus On Food, Snuggles, & Her Very Good Children's Book 'How Do You Care For A Very Sick Bear?'

Beds are somehow a theme with Vanessa Bayer. The SNL player became doubly famous for her historically lazy Sunday Routine published in the New York Times in 2016 ("I order food from my couch and I don’t leave my couch again until it comes. I’ll… → Read More

Pickup From Daycare Is The Damn Best

You know what Sheryl Sandburg never mentioned when she was on that lean-in tear, selling the rewards of keeping up a career (ugh) into motherhood? The goddamn magic of the daycare pickup. Going to work can suck, Sheryl was right about that, but… → Read More

Poop In The Bath Tub Is A *Gift*

In the beginning, there is the pinched little face, newer than a dew drop, taking its first breath in your arms. By this point — birth — my daughter had already taken her first poop ~inside me~ and I’ve been elbows deep in it ever since. At first… → Read More