parenting

What seemed like it might be a super fun adventure is suddenly exhausting, terrifying, and sometimes downright dangerous.

People should stop assuming things about my autistic child.

ICYMI: Ravishly recently hosted a Twitter chat all about infant feeding.

When I check on our daughter before heading to bed myself, I have to do a quick scan around her full-size bed just to locate her. She is almost never remotely close to where she started out. But she is almost always upside down, head jammed up against the wall or her footboard, stuffed animals scattered like confetti all around her.

“Is autism my super power?” she asked me, giggling.

This doesn't surprise me — people don't even like to talk about breastfeeding. Adding in sex? Forget it.

I so firmly believe that everyone should have the freedom to truly be who they are, without limits, and it’s important to me to raise kids who are open and accepting of that, too. Here are five ways I’m raising a gender equal child.

Are there any good reasons to buy your teenager a car, other than making them happy?