Parenting

When my son was three-ish years old, he would regularly ask me, “Are we here, Mama?” He did so not in the way most kiddos do, not half an hour into a 14-hour car ride, but rather at the most unexpected moments: sitting on the floor stacking Legos, propped on my hip as I stirred […]

Recently, in my conversation with dietitian Leah Kern on her podcast “Shoulders Down,” I shared this sentiment: “I would rather raise a normal eater than a healthy eater.” Here’s the thing, in many circles, eating “healthy” has come to mean ascribing to a binary in which goodness and value are attached to a particular style […]