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parenting
Family Rituals
The After-School Snack as a Ritual
A small ritual of an apple and a glass of water at the kitchen table in suburban Austin, six days a week, for seven years.
Family Rituals
The Sunday Afternoon Family Meeting
A Texas household tries the family-meeting idea for three years running, with chairs around a kitchen table and an agenda kept in a spiral notebook.
Sleep
The Eighteen-Month Sleep Regression: A Field Account
Naya Mehta sits with a family in Bengaluru through the second great unraveling of their toddler's nights, and finds that the only thing that helps is naming it.