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Parenting advice, family tips, and warm hugs from Slate's parenting team.

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No non-toxic masculinity under patriarchy https://t.co/MyzOslgrUT

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This week on Mom and Dad Are Fighting: What do you do when you catch your 17-year-old son messaging with a 25-year-old man on Tinder? https://t.co/WsG8tV5GtW

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6/ Lastly, this interview w/ @boburnham, director of Eighth Grade, on how kids form identity is just lovely: "I think eighth grade is a time where your self-awareness is just flicked on like a light...You’re trying to build a parachute as you’re falling."
https://t.co/7sbU1taylQ

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1/ 💕It's Friday and we're in love...with these stories we read this week!

First up, this @KA_Brooks piece on mothers who are criminalized for making perfectly rational parenting decisions is devastating and infuriating. https://t.co/5OhLRs4I6z

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5/ The fact that 60 percent of women who get abortions in America are already mothers means we should reframe Roe v. Wade discussions away from the familiar battle lines of pro-choice vs. pro-family
https://t.co/6lD6ZMt898

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Here is a new episode of Mom and Dad Are Fighting for you to listen to; we addressed the question of whether it’s OK to put your two-year-old in a T-shirt with a political slogan that he’s too young to endorse and for which he might get bullied https://t.co/VwrfDJEnwi

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6/ And last but not least if you've got a kid who loves planes, trains and automobiles @gabrielroth's got some recommendations for non-aggravating toys.
https://t.co/5WOEG2OK8X

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1/ 🎶 It's Friday, Friday, everybody's looking forward to the weekend 🎶

Here's a few stories to read while you're trying to get that Rebecca Black song out of your head. First up, these writers' reminiscing on being 13 made us cringe for days.
https://t.co/PwaoIn978w

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5/ As per usual, Care and Feeding was in fine form. Nicole Cliffe counsels a reader on how to help kids deal with fear of the dark and @carvellwallace helps a mother confront her empty-nest syndrome.
https://t.co/5yXH65BD2y
https://t.co/Ba8u0ns6h8

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@carvellwallace @gabrielroth @thehighsign (I mean “also about parenting,” not “also @thehighsign is bad at parenting”)

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This week on MOM AND DAD ARE FIGHTING, @carvellwallace and @gabrielroth are joined by @thehighsign to talk about how bad she is at racket sports (also parenting) https://t.co/a42yAEAgmN

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7/ And lastly, for a few giggles, check out this cartoon on a bunch of kids playing scarily accurate "mommies and daddies"

https://t.co/WW6qnp4wTE

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1/ 🎉Congratulations on making it through another week🎉

To celebrate, here are some of the stories we loved this week.

First up, we have this lovely essay from @ericaperl on why there should be more children's books about suicide and depression
https://t.co/EgfERAXPw1

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6/ What is Gen Z scared of? @sarahrbellman asked a bunch of teens to watch horror movies to find out.

https://t.co/CPDIGhUm7C