Meagan Francis

When my five kids were small, I naively saw the age of 18 as the light at the end of the tunnel. During that sleepless stretch in which my life felt like an endless blur of night feedings, diapers, bandaging boo-boos and navigating piles of sippy-cups and sippy-cup lids that never seemed to match, I looked forward to my kids’ legal adulthood as a kind of finish line. Once they’d crossed it, I figured, I could relax and celebrate having gotten past the hardest parts of parenting.
Now, with two...

I started podcasting in 2012. In those days, I used three separate pieces of software, non-expertly rigged together, to record my shows, and most of my guests really had no idea what a podcast was. There were no advertisers knocking on my door, and my long-loyal blog readers were mostly just confused about why I’d seem to abandon the craft of essay-style writing in order to jabber into a mic for an hour.
Things have changed a lot since then. In 2015 I started a new, actually marketable podcas...

If you’re like many parents, sometime in the last month or so you gave up the better part of a weekday evening to attend back-to-school night. Perhaps you stuffed your body awkwardly into a tiny chair made for second-graders while obediently writing down field trip dates. Maybe you leaned forward eagerly as you learned about the new grading system your sixth-grader faces, seeking reassurance your child won’t be overwhelmed in this unfamiliar system.
Even if we’d prefer to opt out, we don’t wa...

When my first son was a baby, I breastfed in private. In the first few months of his life, we saw the insides of more dressing rooms and restrooms than I care to count.

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