Veronica Wells-Puoane

The first few weeks postpartum are wild times. Your body is healing , you're not getting much sleep, and on top of it all, you're adjusting to an entirely new person being in your home.

The teacher knew he was gone but didn't go look for him.

She thought it was too early to tell at the time, but now she realizes it was obvious.

In 2010, activist Jimmy McMillan, told us that “the rent was too d— high.” In the decade since he uttered that truth, things have only gotten worse.

Humor is hard to pin down. It's not easy to explain exactly why things make us laugh. But no matter how elusive it may seem, children develop and express their humor pretty early in life.

Car trouble is inconvenient and terrible. But what can make that bad situation worse is having car trouble when you're traveling with children.

We never know which of our traits our children will inherit. We spend the time of their gestation wondering and imagining. Will they have my eyes?

One of the hardest parts of parenting is wondering whether you're doing it right. After all, we're raising human beings who will one day enter the

Not only that, she's requesting specific seating arrangements for them!

While newborns are in the world, they're not entirely of it in the same way we are. They're almost nocturnal.