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Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World

Scaring children won’t keep them safe. Instead, help them see the good in the world.

There’s a Popular Theory for Understanding All Human Relationships. It’s Based on Dubious Science.

The parenting internet’s fixation on “attachment styles” is unhelpful and unscientific.

The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (Feb. 8-14)

“Someone gifted us some Berenstain Bears books and my husband said ‘we can read those but before we do, you should know upfront I have some issues with Lizzie.’”

When I Became a Teenager, I Thought Kindness Was for Kids

I wanted to see what it felt like to hurt people’s feelings. But now it’s time to stop

17 Parenting Hacks I Picked up Traveling the World With My Toddler

The best tips that helped Ashlea Halpern survive a three-month, six-continent trip with her toddler.

5 Overlooked Plex Features Everybody Misses

Plex is best known as the streaming platform that lets you host your own video content and then stream it to devices on your local network. However, Plex has so much more to it, and chances are there's at least one of these five features you weren't aware of.

High and Dry, by Barrett Swanson

It’s dusk on the first night of Bonnaroo, and the lotus-eaters are all around us. There are candy flippers in white Moon Boots with impressively lacquered eyelashes, and a portly man with a Gandalf beard who’s magnanimously handing out shot glasses.

There’s One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children

Parents who claim to never lie to their children are liars. It begins with Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy. Then it’s yes, all kindergartners go to bed at 7 o’clock and no, the chickens on the farm and the chicken on your plate are not the same kind of chicken.

Being an Asian Southerner Means Being an Anomaly, Squared

The cicadas began to arrive in the South in May. I suppose “arrive” is the wrong word, as the insects had been in the yard for two years already when my parents bought the property back in 2006, their bodies buried eight or more feet deep in the soil, insect clocks set to a seventeen-year timer.

My Mom’s Disappearance Was A Mystery. Then I Saw An Old Photo — And What I Discovered Next Left Me Shaken.

I tried not to stare when I first saw her. Her gaunt, heavily lined face made her look older than I expected. She wore a dingy pumpkin-orange thrift-store turtleneck that swallowed her 5-foot-7, 98-pound frame. But her ice-blue eyes sparkled like a kid’s on Christmas morning.

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The College Kids Tracking Your Decongested Commute

Congestion pricing’s first month has offered New Yorkers plenty of immediate ways to measure its impact: their E-ZPass bills, the decrease in honk-inducing gridlock outside their windows, the number of exclamation points in a bridge-and-tunnel uncle’s Facebook posts.

Why Doesn’t My Son’s Adviser Understand That Boys Will Be Boys?

In December, my son attended a religious retreat away from home. When some of the high school boys were in a room alone with girls, the boys got overexcited, turned off the lights and yelled “Tickle fight!” One of the girls was touched on the shoulder, but nothing remotely sexual happened.

Can this revolutionary plastics-recycling plant help solve the pollution crisis?

The world is miserable at recycling plastics. Currently, just 10–15% of the plastic waste we generate annually is recycled — with the rest incinerated, buried in landfill or dumped as litter1,2.

How to stop your MacBook from turning on when you open the lid

Apple has finally shared how to disable autoboot on M-series MacBook models when you open the lid or plug in power. Apple has finally shared how to disable autoboot on M-series MacBook models when you open the lid or plug in power.

Help! My Dad Is a Reckless Driver—With a Habit That Could Cost Him His Life.

Dear Prudence is Slate’s advice column. Delia Cai is filling in as Prudie for Jenée Desmond-Harris while she’s on parental leave. Submit questions here. For my whole life, my dad has refused to wear a seatbelt.

Curated by our editorsStories to fuel your mind

Don’t Teach Your Kids to Fear the World

There’s a Popular Theory for Understanding All Human Relationships. It’s Based on Dubious Science.

The Funniest Tweets From Parents This Week (Feb. 8-14)

When I Became a Teenager, I Thought Kindness Was for Kids

17 Parenting Hacks I Picked up Traveling the World With My Toddler

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5 Overlooked Plex Features Everybody Misses

High and Dry, by Barrett Swanson

There’s One Lie I Will Never Tell My Children

Being an Asian Southerner Means Being an Anomaly, Squared

My Mom’s Disappearance Was A Mystery. Then I Saw An Old Photo — And What I Discovered Next Left Me Shaken.

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The College Kids Tracking Your Decongested Commute

Why Doesn’t My Son’s Adviser Understand That Boys Will Be Boys?

Can this revolutionary plastics-recycling plant help solve the pollution crisis?

How to stop your MacBook from turning on when you open the lid

Help! My Dad Is a Reckless Driver—With a Habit That Could Cost Him His Life.

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