Las consecuencias de burlarte de tu bebe en TikTok
El baby cheese challenge y el desafio de romper un huevo en la cabeza son tendencias virales que humillan a los bebes y niños pequeños.
Estas tendencias muestran una falta de respeto hacia los niños y pueden tener consecuencias emocionales negativas.
Expertos en cuidado infantil han expresado su desaprobación hacia estas tendencias y enfatizan la importancia de proteger el bienestar de los niños. [ more ]
Pandemic Relief Funding for Child Care Is Ending. What Now?
$24 billion in funding for the child care sector is set to expire at midnight, putting over 220,000 providers at risk.
The child care shortage already costs families $78 billion per year and businesses $23 billion per year.
There is disagreement over the best way to support child care providers, with Democrats proposing $16 billion per year but facing a lack of Republican support. [ more ]
Opinion | The Fight for Your Kids' Brains Has Already Begun
The pitfalls of social media and public sharing of private videos are explored in the new Netflix teen comedy You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah.
Media and tech literacy is important for children to understand the consequences of their online actions.
The presence of smartphones in the lives of children can intensify bullying and peer pressure. [ more ]
Opinion | Why You Should Listen to Your Worst Instincts
The self-help industry and social media platforms often promote advice on how to live a good life, but following this advice can lead to a lack of individuality and a sense of being trapped.
Desire is an important compass that should not be disregarded in the pursuit of right and wrong ways to live.
Unsettling desires can challenge our perception of ourselves and require time and care to navigate. [ more ]
Opinion | Your Clothes Were Never Meant to Fit You
The author highlights the persistent challenges faced by curvy teenagers when shopping for formal attire, as they often had limited options with frumpy designs and limited color choices.
The author initially felt encouraged by the increasing body positivity movement and the efforts by big brands to cater to plus-size individuals. However, this momentum quickly dissipated with companies retracting their plus-size offerings and returning to promoting thinness as the norm.
The author observes a concerning correlation between the resurgence of Y2K-style fashion, which often perpetuates slim body ideals, and the rise of weight-loss drugs being used off-label. This suggests that society's acceptance of diverse body types may still be fragile and subject to external influences. [ more ]
Opinion | Mayor Adams and Others: Ideas for New York
The mayor of New York, Eric Adams, believes that running a city effectively means prioritizing the basics and making sure they work well, rather than just focusing on big ideas.
Adams highlights the positive impact his administration has had in areas such as overall crime reduction, cleaner streets, and job recovery.
A major challenge facing New York City is food insecurity, with one in ten New Yorkers experiencing it. Nonprofits have been left to address this crisis, as there has been a lack of government action in tackling the issue. [ more ]
Poverty creates time poverty: The author highlights how poverty robs parents of the time they could spend with their children, due to working long hours for little pay. This creates a scarcity of time for family activities and involvement in their children's lives.
Community support is crucial for struggling families: The author talks about how friends, neighbors, aunties, cousins, and grandmothers help in babysitting and transportation for the children in poverty-stricken families. This shows the importance of a support network in bridging the gaps created by time poverty.
Material signs of poverty can have a significant impact: The author mentions how the lack of material possessions, such as branded sneakers, led to mockery and a sense of suffering at school. This highlights the effect that poverty has on self-esteem and social dynamics, even among children.
rall, these takeaways shed light on the multifaceted impacts of poverty, including time poverty, the importance of community support, and the social implications of material signs of poverty. [ more ]
Camp Trucking, a transportation company used by various summer camps, unexpectedly closed its doors, leaving parents and camp directors in a state of confusion and frustration.
Parents had paid additional fees for door-to-door service to transport their children's belongings to and from camp, and now many were left without a means to retrieve their items.
The closure of Camp Trucking was attributed to the ongoing financial impact of the Covid-19 pandemic, causing significant disruptions to the company's operations. [ more ]
Opinion | Will Future You' Thank Today You' for Getting Married?
Big life choices, such as marriage, often involve a transformative experience where we change ourselves in the process and learn what we need to know after making the choice. This can be compared to the allegory of becoming a vampire, where one cannot truly understand the experience until they become one themselves.
Decision-making for marriage is not easily quantifiable or rationalized through the usual method of weighing pros and cons. The decision involves factors that are spontaneous, organic, and complex, making it difficult for economists to grapple with. It isn't just about pleasing the present or future self, but about embracing the vulnerability and susceptibility to love.
The decision to marry often involves intuition or following one's gut feelings. While Charles Darwin, known for his scientific approach, initially made lists of scenarios, he ultimately made the decision to marry based on his emotional instincts. This highlights the subjective and emotional nature of such decisions, indicating that rational analysis may not capture the full complexity of the choice. [ more ]
My Friend Is Mistreating Her Nanny. Should I Say Something?
In the gig economy, nanny mistreatment is a real and growing issue that needs to be addressed.
Nannies who are not compensated fairly, or are subject to unlawful working conditions, are often too afraid to speak up for fear of being retaliated against. [ more ]
Opinion | Shining a Light on Postpartum Depression
Postpartum depression is a serious mental health condition that affects many women, and can have serious impacts on both the mother and the family.
Mental health professionals should be encouraged to provide more comprehensive mental health evaluations to new mothers to identify the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression.
Friends and family of new mothers should be aware of the signs and symptoms of postpartum depression and provide support and understanding to those who are struggling with it. [ more ]
Personal Reflections on Parenting, Lesbian History and Autism
Developing a strong sense of self and identity is a key factor in navigating the complexities of parenting, particularly for LGBTQ+ parents.
Recognizing personal experiences of parenting can help to broaden our understanding of diverse family dynamics.
Embracing neurodiversity and understanding the unique challenges faced by autistic individuals is essential to foster inclusive and accepting communities. [ more ]
Day Care for Less Than $10: How Canada Is Easing the Burden for Parents
As Susana Ibarra's maternity leave was ending and she was preparing to return to her office outside Toronto, she still faced a big challenge: finding care for her son and then figuring out how to pay for it.Finally, after putting him on a dozen or so waiting lists, she landed a spot.Even better, it came at a discounted fee of 600 Canadian dollars, or $450, a month.
Opinion | We Muslims Used to Be the Culture War Scapegoats. Why Are Some of Us Joining the L.G.B.T.Q. Pile-On?
The political right's exhausting and cruel war on wokeness is now aligning with the efforts of some Muslim Americans to attack the L.G.B.T.Q.community under the guise of protecting religious freedoms and parental rights.After enduring a gantlet of scapegoating after 9/11, you'd think we Muslims would have learned.
The patients in this story came to the Yale Fertility Center to pursue pregnancy.They began their I.V.F.cycles full of expectation and hope.Then a surgical procedure called egg retrieval caused them excruciating pain.Some of the patients screamed out in the procedure room.Others called the clinic from home to report pain in the hours that followed.
Child Care Disruptions Expected as Record Funding Nears an End
For two years, the United States has been effectively running an experiment in federally funding child care providers.The $24 billion disbursed in pandemic relief has been the largest investment in child care in U.S. history.Child care providers have used the money to raise teachers' pay, buy supplies and pay mortgages.
Opinion | I Thought I Was Fatherless. Then I Realized What a Father Was.
I heard my father's voice for the first time three years ago when I was 14 years old.For years, a CD had been sitting in a clear plastic case in my desk drawer, but I had never been able to get myself to play it.I would pick up the shiny disc, stare at the faded black ink that said Donor Interview, notice my distorted reflection in the silver circle, then put the CD back down.
Like many parents in the early months of the pandemic, Dave Ogleton was struggling.His business selling nutrition products was at a standstill.He and his wife, Jackie Megraw, were stuck at home in Devon, Pa., with their five (soon to be six) children, several of whom were languishing in Zoom classes.
My Father Was Awful. Do I Have to Plan His Funeral?
After a childhood spent shuttling between divorced parents, my relationship with my father (with whom I never lived full time) became rote and dreaded as I matured into adulthood.Not only did I recognize he was a deeply unhappy person with addiction issues which occasionally placed me in danger, I was always bothered by his racist, misogynistic and homophobic jokes.
Cassandra Jackson was in her 30s when she first encountered the expression replacement child, and it took her breath away.Coined by psychologists in the '60s to describe a son or daughter conceived to fill the void after another child's death, the term is the closest I will come, Jackson writes in her anguished, affecting memoir, THE WRECK: A Daughter's Memoir of Becoming a Mother (Viking, 307 pp., $28), to a name for what I am.
Am I Stalking My Own Grandchildren? I Miss Them Terribly.
My son has three children and is divorced from their mother.He is an alcoholic and, as a result, has not been able to pay child support beyond the divorce settlement.He can't even support himself.The children's mother has full custody.Any requests I make for contact with my grandchildren are ignored, gifts sent are unacknowledged, checks sent are uncashed.
America is now two years into abnormally high inflation and while the nation appears to be past the worst phase of the biggest spike in price increases in half a century, the road back to normal is a long and uncertain one.The pop in prices over the 24 months that ended in March eroded wage gains, burdened consumers and spurred a Federal Reserve response that has the potential to cause a recession.
The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, and exclusive new shows that we're making available to readers for a limited time.Download the audio app here.Our new audio app is home to This American Life, hosted by Ira Glass.New episodes debut in our app a day earlier than the regular podcast feed, and we've also got an archive of the award-winning program.
Opinion | What Communes and Other Radical Experiments in Living Together Reveal
Produced by The Ezra Klein Show' The New York Times Audio app includes podcasts, narrated articles from the newsroom and other publishers, as well as exclusive new shows including this one which we're making available to readers for a limited time.Download the audio app here.Today's future-positive writers critique our economies while largely seeming to ignore that anything might be amiss in our private lives, writes Kristen Ghodsee.
Opinion | Millions of People Watched Her Grow Up Online. What Did It Cost Her?
Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Produced by Olivia Natt and Jillian Weinberger Edited by Anabel Bacon, Stephanie Joyce and Kaari Pitkin Engineered by Efim Shapiro Original music by Isaac Jones, Pat McCusker and Carole Sabouraud So-called kidfluencing is a growing industry, with as many as one in four members of Gen Z saying they aspire to become influencers.
Grite a los ninos para que se subieran al auto.Allie, de 6 anos, se tomaba su tiempo, arrastrando su mochila.Jordan, de 4, lloriqueaba para que lo llevara en brazos.Tuve que tirar de Jax, de 9 anos, que se habia detenido para escribir bolaz con el dedo indice en el coche cubierto de rocio.Mis nietos son mi mundo.
Tu hijo no suelta el telefono? Estas herramientas pueden ayudarte
Atencion, papas y mamas de hijos pantallofilos: el gobierno de Estados Unidos ha emitido una advertencia publica de que navegar por aplicaciones como TikTok, Instagram y Snapchat puede acarrear graves riesgos para la salud mental de los menores.En un informe de 19 paginas, la principal autoridad de salud de Estados Unidos, Vivek H. Murthy, afirmo el 23 de mayo que, aunque las redes sociales ofrecen algunas ventajas a los jovenes, como la posibilidad de conectar con distintas comunidades, tambien los exponen a danos potenciales, como el ciberacoso y contenidos que promueven trastornos alimentarios, autolesiones y otros comportamientos destructivos.
I yelled at the children to get into the car.Allie, 6, was taking her time, dragging her book bag.Jordan, 4, was whining for me to carry him.I had to yank Jax, 9, who had paused to write ballz on the dewy car with his index finger.My grandchildren are my world.But at 62, I can't believe I'm raising them alone.
Opinion | Living With the Loss of a Child: I Feel Your Pain, Sarah Wildman'
For the Young, a Time to Risk, to Play, to Imagine A Woman's Anger Image Credit...Karlotta Freier To the Editor: Re My Daughter's Future Was Taken From Her, and From Us, by Sarah Wildman (Opinion, May 21): My heart aches for the writer of this essay, and as someone who has also lost a child, I can assure you that there is no greater pain.
A New Generation of Philanthropists Child of an Older Mother Image Nurse practitioner Haley Lynn, left, with patient Nathaniel Brookard, at Oak Street Health in Brooklyn.CVS Health recently bought Oak Street's fast-growing chain of primary care centers that employ doctors in 21 states.Credit...James Estrin/The New York Times To the Editor: Re Insurers Add Primary Care to Portfolios (front page, May 9): It seems to me that the fact that multibillion-dollar corporations, particularly giant health insurers, are gobbling up primary care practices to make more money and increase their control of health care delivery is old news to most American physicians.
Opinion | My Daughter Was So Alive. How Can She Now Be Gone?
In late 2008, toward the end of my pregnancy with Orli, I interviewed the actor Harvey Fierstein, then starring in Hairspray.As I made my way through the crowd backstage at the Neil Simon Theater, past cast members and stage managers, hangers-on and well-wishers, Mr. Fierstein caught a glimpse of my belly.
BIRTH: Three Mothers, Nine Months, and Pregnancy in America, by Rebecca Grant The French existentialist philosopher Simone de Beauvoir provides an epigraph for Birth, Rebecca Grant's exploration of pregnancy and childbirth in the United States.Pregnancy is above all a drama playing itself out inside the woman between her and herself, Beauvoir wrote in The Second Sex (1949).
A Daughter of a Warhol Superstar Tells Her Story at Last
PHILADELPHIA Alexandra Auder was almost born in the lobby of the Chelsea Hotel, then a febrile bohemian enclave on Manhattan's West 23rd Street, but her mother, Viva, a Warhol superstar, managed to make it to the hospital as the staff egged her on.A girl!I want a girl! a bellman declared, helping her into a taxi.
Los milenials se toman muy en serio esto de la crianza
Un segundo despues de que la pala de plastico golpeo el brazo de mi hijo, la madre del otro nino corrio hacia el arenero con cara de no puedo relajarme ni cinco segundos?Yo tambien me acerque (quiza con la misma expresion) tratando de decirle que no habia pasado nada (mi hijo estaba ocupado jugando con otro juguete sucio y arenoso y apenas se habia dado cuenta), pero ella ya estaba de rodillas, a la altura de su hijo, hablando en un lenguaje que muchos padres milenials reconocerian.
Opinion | Tweens Shouldn't Be on Social Media. Can Smartwatches Help Keep Them Off?
On Tuesday, Surgeon General Vivek Murthy released a public advisory about the hazardous potential of social media on youth mental health.I was pleased to see that it's a balanced summary of what we know and a clear explanation of the gaps in the evidence and not just a typical anti-social-media screed.
Opinion | I Know the Pressure of Being a Doctor. Motherhood Is Something Else.
It should be the easiest, most natural thing in the world.Or so it seems.But here I am, home from the hospital and my newborn daughter is struggling to eat.Her movements are frantic.She gnaws at my chest, my lip, even my nose, desperate for milk.Who knew that something so small could be so strong?We try again.
The Sunday Read: The Agony of Putting Your Life on Hold to Care for Your Parents'
In January 2022, Randi Schofield was a 34-year-old single mother who, not long before, left her full-time job of eight years as a personal bailiff to a local judge.She pulled $30,000 from her retirement savings and was planning to give herself all of 2022 to expand the small catering business she had always dreamed about.
Alex Gable spent recent weeks in the bleary-eyed haze of new parenthood.His son was born in November and Mr. Gable powered down his laptop, deleted Slack from his phone and focused on caring for his wife while making the most of the four precious hours a day that their baby was awake there was tummy time and time spent ogling little drawings of snowflakes.
Mi hija estaba muy viva. Como es posible que ya no este?
A finales de 2008, en la recta final de mi embarazo de Orli, entreviste al actor Harvey Fierstein, quien entonces protagonizaba Hairspray.Al escabullirme en la multitud que se agolpaba entre los bastidores del Neil Simon Theater, y llegar mas alla de los miembros del reparto, los tecnicos del escenario y las personas que habian ido a felicitarlo, Fierstein se fijo en mi barriga.
For the next three weeks, I'll be exploring digital asceticism, the role of technology in our lives and how to maintain our humanity in an increasingly technological world.These days, when I get together with friends who are also parents, the conversation eventually turns to a repeated theme: how to handle screens and technology use with our kids.
A second after the plastic shovel hit my son's arm, the other boy's mom was rushing toward the sandbox, a look of Can't I relax for five seconds? on her face.I made my way over too probably with the same expression trying to signal that it was fine (my son was busy playing with some other germy, sandy toy and barely seemed to notice), but she was already on her knees, eye level with her son, speaking in language that many millennial parents would recognize.
Opinion | Parents Don't Understand How Far Behind Their Kids Are in School
Illustration by Mathieu Labrecque By Tom Kane and Sean Reardon Graphics by Quoctrung Bui Dr. Kane is a professor of education and economics at Harvard.Dr. Reardon is a professor of education and sociology at Stanford.Parents have become a lot more optimistic about how well their children are doing in school.
First, Kristin Batykefer lost her marketing job when there was a management change.Then her marriage fell apart, and she suddenly found herself with no income and nowhere to go.To help her get back on her feet last year, two family friends invited Ms. Batykefer and her now 4-year-old daughter to stay in their four-bedroom home in Jacksonville, Fla., area.
Estados Unidos lleva dos anos de inflacion anormalmente alta y, aunque el pais parece haber superado la peor fase de la mayor subida de precios en medio siglo, el camino de vuelta a la normalidad es largo e incierto.El repunte de los precios durante los 24 meses que finalizaron en marzo erosiono los aumentos salariales, agobio a los consumidores y estimulo una respuesta de la Reserva Federal que tiene el potencial de provocar una recesion.
The U.S. Built a European-Style Welfare State. It's Largely Over.
In the early, panicked days of the pandemic, the United States government did something that was previously unimaginable.It transformed itself, within weeks, into something akin to a European-style welfare state.Congress rapidly fortified the social safety net, making it much stronger than at any point.
Sammy spotted the wildlife first.We had just landed at Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, and climbed into the car.We were barely off the exit ramp when she pointed across the road to the leafy perimeter of Nairobi National Park and announced, with a grin of triumph, Look, a giraffe!
9 Ways to Bring Every Generation but Leave the Family Drama at Home
Three generations packed in a van, navigating winding roads and family dramas: It sounds like a scene from Season 2 of The White Lotus.But the show's fictional Di Grasso clan isn't the only extended family hitting the road together as Covid retreats.Real-life parents, grandparents and grandchildren are packing their bags for long-delayed multigenerational trips.
Opinion | What the Push for Parents' Rights' Is Really About
You may have heard the phrase parents' rights.It sounds unobjectionable of course parents should have rights which is probably why it's become the term of choice for the conservative effort to ban books, censor school curriculums and suppress politically undesirable forms of knowledge.When House Republicans introduced a bill that would require public schools to notify parents that they are entitled to access course material and lists of books kept in school libraries, they cited parents' rights as the reason.
A few days ago, Utah became the first state to pass a law prohibiting social media services from allowing users under 18 to have accounts without the explicit consent of a parent or guardian.The move, by Republican officials, is intended to address what they describe as a mental health crisis among American teenagers as well as to protect younger users from bullying and child sexual exploitation.
What could be bad about visiting your grandparents in Florida when it's gray and chilly elsewhere?From the perspective of tweens and teens, a lot.Of course, seeing their relatives is great, but Charlie Abisror, 17, of Demarest, N.J., put it this way.When it comes to things to do, a walk to the Circle K to get a Little Debbie is about the best of it, he said and the car-centric landscape means you're lucky if you get a sidewalk to boot.
Opinion | Stop Treating Adolescent Girls as Emotionally Abnormal
In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released a report titled the Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2011-2021, or Y.R.B.S.According to the C.D.C., nearly 3 in 5 (57 percent) U.S. teen girls felt persistently sad or hopeless in 2021 double that of boys and the highest level reported over the past decade.
Veinte animales de peluche yacian de manera siniestra boca abajo, hombro con hombro, formando un circulo perfecto en el suelo.Mi hija de 11 anos, Mary, estaba sentada en el centro, como si celebrara un ritual esoterico.Yo ya estaba acostumbrada a ese tipo de cuadros.Los peluches de Mary eran algo mas que objetos que ella abrazaba en la noche.
Opinion | This Isn't What Millennial Middle Age Was Supposed to Look Like
Millennials are hitting middle age and it doesn't look like what we were promised.Millennials are hittingmiddle age and itdoesn't look like what we were promised.I still feel like an imposter whenever I catch myself adulting, even though I'm a father now and an attorney.I still feel like an imposterwhenever I catch myselfadulting, even though I'm a father now and an attorney.
FathersGained Family Time inthe Pandemic. Many Don't Want to Give It Back.
When the pandemic hit, Steve Gaffney was laid off from his longtime job at a company that provided lighting for events.Three weeks later, his daughter Morgan was born.At 42, he became a stay-at-home father.It made sense for their family: His partner, who unlike him has a college degree, earned more, and as a facilities manager she was always on call.
Opinion | Your Height and Your Children's Height Shouldn't Matter
Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Produced by Derek Arthur and Sophia Alvarez Boyd Edited by Stephanie Joyce and Kaari Pitkin Engineered by Pat McCusker Original music by Pat McCusker, Isaac Jones and Carole Sabouraud Would you be a few inches taller if you could?The answer may depend on your gender and how much you've dreamed of being a professional athlete.
What Statistics Can't Capture About the Global Baby Bust
It's a story that you can almost set your watch by: Every few months, new data or a new report will show that the birthrate in a country or region is too low to sustain economic growth, and that efforts to convince people to have more babies have failed.It's a story that, in many ways, is made for the Interpreter, and one that I'm very much in the middle of as a busy working parent.
Opinion | I Answer the Phone at a Mental Health Hotline. Here's What I've Learned.
Oh my, you picked up the phone.The caller sounded genuinely surprised and held her breath for a moment before telling her story.For more than a year, she and her husband had been largely trapped in their home by their 25-year-old son, who suffered from psychotic episodes.He refused any treatment, he had been making threats, and most nights he holed up in his room doing drugs while his parents tried to sleep behind their double-locked bedroom door.
Opinion | He Was Losing His Mind Slowly, and I Watched It'
Hosted by Lulu Garcia-Navarro Produced by Olivia Natt Edited by Anabel Bacon and Kaari Pitkin Engineered by Carole Sabouraud and Isaac Jones Original music by Isaac Jones, Sonia Herrero, Pat McCusker and Carole Sabouraud Kimberly is a mom whose 22-year-old son has been cycling in and out of psychosis since he was a teenager.
Opinion | My Child Is in an Impossible Place, and I Am There With Her
In my family, we talk about hard things.That's not to say we are morose.We are not.Nor are we particularly profound.If anything, we lean into the ridiculous, and the silly, whenever possible.At the same time, in over three years of managing our daughter Orli's liver cancer, we have had to navigate the unimaginable, and also translate it to our children.
ZIG-ZAG BOY: A Memoir of Madness and Motherhood, by Tanya Frank When Tanya Frank's otherwise healthy 19-year-old son, Zach, experienced his first psychotic break in 2009, he thought his friends had become members of the Russian Mafia, that his cellphone was bugged, and that his college was a network set up to spy on him, along with the whirring helicopters that seemed to hover over the family's Hollywood Hills home.