Five back issues for $20, shipped priority mail. More than 25 essays, plus feature stories, award-winning fiction and more.
Enjoy New York Times bestselling author Cheryl Strayed’s 
essay on being a novelist and a “baby person,” as well as essays offering two perspectives on mothering in mixed-race families, plus a piece on how destiny is set in motion when naming a baby, and Karen Dempsey’s essay on the difference between bad medicine and good. Our feature looks at radical homemaking–does eco-parenting yield enlightened caregivers or are we just making mothering harder?
Here Kate Haas takes us on a journey through a medical mystery that lies between scary and nothing, plus essays on childhood stuttering (is it a gift?), and anatomically correct baby dolls. Longtime Brain, Child writer Dawn Friedman pens a feature article on the “forever family” – about when adoption falls apart. Plus, a lively debate on whether or not we should talk to other parents about our children’s sniping at each other?
A handful of essays ranging from explaining the loss of a grandparent to a child to happiness in disabled kids. Plus an OB-GYN mother ponders whether she has a birth moment of her own; the truth behind the tempting “Work at Home!” ads; Suzie Schweikert’s essay about the people who were there when she became a parent, and a lively debate on whether or not it make sense to raise your kids with your political views.
Sarah Werthan Buttenwieser tells an open adoption tale; a pregnant mom copes with chicken pox, plus essays on growing up with hoarder parents; a nudist by nature-a mother reflects on the appearance of her naked body after her bilateral mastectomy. Also look for a lively debate on whether or not it is okay for kids to play with toy guns, and a feature story about mothers – are we happy or not? Have we complained too much or not enough?
Longtime Brain, Child contributor Catherine Newman writes about children and manners, plus essays on single mothers; “the other mother”; a baby on the no-fly list and “Future on Ice” – on love and frozen embryos. Our feature discusses children with international heritages. Plus you’ll find reviews of parenting anthologies, and a lively debate over whether or not you should discipline other people’s kids in public.
