Child Care

December 7, 2023

Having a Child-Free Wedding? Consider Hiring a Sitter for Guests’ Kids

Some brides and grooms are addressing the age-old dilemma of “who’s going to watch the kids?” by hiring babysitters for guests’ little ones. When Ja’Nay Ford […]
June 9, 2023

What if I Hadn’t Been There to Catch Them?

I never thought I’d be experiencing the heartache and joys of raising three small children, alone, at 62. I yelled at the children to get into […]
August 27, 2022

Parents Are Hiring Babysitters or the ‘Disco Nanny’ for a Night Out

In party hot spots around Europe, agencies have popped up to provide child care at all hours of the night and day. Three months before Olga […]
November 12, 2021

The Manny Diaries

Chapter one: This job is hard. Chapter two: Leaving it is harder. I was 24, relatively new to New York City, working a day job I […]
May 6, 2020

Nearly Half of Men Say They Do Most of the Home Schooling. 3 Percent of Women Agree.

ImageA scene of home schooling in Roseville, Minn., in March.Credit…Leila Navidi/Star Tribune, via Associated Press Home schooling, the new parental chore brought about by coronavirus lockdowns, […]
April 27, 2020

Three Things Lockdowns Have Exposed About Working and Parenting

If you’re an involved parent, especially a mother, you’re supposed to play down that fact at work or risk being penalized — at least at many […]
May 11, 2019

The Look: A Mother’s Clock

Time follows no standard when you become a parent.
November 14, 2017

Noted: Where Are All the Nannies on Instagram?

Advertisement Dikla Goren Dekel, a Brooklyn-based mother of three who writes the lifestyle blog Girl Plus Two, shares a lot of her life on Instagram. A […]
September 23, 2016

Social Q’s: Siblings Who Don’t Play Nice After a Mother’s Death

Social Q’s By PHILIP GALANES It has been two years since my mother died, and the Jewish holidays are around the corner again. The problem: They […]