Category: Parenting

Stop judging parents by how their children fare

Posted on 04/07/202010/20/2021 by Irene Caselli

Being a mother comes with a lot of conflicted feelings. I go from wanting to literally bite into my son’s

Do you have questions about raising a child you were always too afraid to ask? Now is your chance!

Posted on 02/12/202010/20/2021 by Irene Caselli

Since starting my job as the First 1,000 Days correspondent, I began getting emails and messages from friends asking me

Let’s talk about sex, baby (and gender, too)

Posted on 01/07/202003/31/2022 by Irene Caselli

Part of what we do here at The Correspondent is explain our learning curve as writers and bring our readers

From boys to feminists: raising a child in a gender-free environment

Posted on 01/02/202003/31/2022 by Irene Caselli

Wanting to raise a feminist son has forced me to confront some of my own uncomfortable biases. But a world without gender benefits boys just as much as girls.

Childhood pictures

Posted on 11/19/201906/14/2021 by Irene Caselli

If you have been reading my newsletters and my work for The Correspondent so far, you already know that I

Doing the laundry

Posted on 11/05/201906/14/2021 by Irene Caselli

A laundromat may not be your ideal location to spend a Saturday afternoon. Even less so if you are out

What’s in a name?

Posted on 10/29/201906/14/2021 by Irene Caselli

“Is this a girl?” An elderly lady, seeing my baby, asked my husband and me this question as we were

Fathering

Posted on 10/22/201902/10/2023 by Irene Caselli

This weekend I met up with my parents and it surprised me that they both congratulated Nacho, my husband, for

Laughter in the children’s hospital

Posted on 10/08/201903/31/2022 by Irene Caselli

Hello from Sweden, where autumn is already turning the leaves red and the rose hips are getting ripe! One of

Eat, play, love: Just how much are you shaped by your first 1,000 days of life?

Posted on 09/30/201906/15/2021 by Irene Caselli

Neuroscience has identified this period – from conception, through nine months of pregnancy, plus two years – as critical for brain development, but it also matters in so many other ways.