Julia Minchew’s conversations with her 3-year-old, Annie, go something like this. Annie: “Mommy, when I get bigger, I’m going to go downstairs, take my car...
Parenting
Explore U.S. Catholic articles on parenting and family life: insights, stories, and resources for modern Catholic families.
Help! I’m Ruining My Kids By Abbey Wedgeworth (Zondervan, 2026) At a time when parenting experts are literally in the palms of our hands and artificial...
“Do you want to play?” Leave it to the endearing and ever insightful Toy Story series to turn such a childhood question into a fraught and penetrating...
Meredith Anne Miller is an author and the co-pastor of Pomona Valley Church, an online and dinner church based in SOuthern California. If you make a reference...
We weren’t in the market for a second church. But my 12-year-old daughter had started to notice that, in Catholic spaces, no one in the highest positions of...
I remember sitting on the floor of my college dorm with a group of young women my freshman year when someone mentioned they had learned how to manage their...
My son Henry sat opposite me in our living room, trying to cross off a confirmation-related assignment on his to-do list: an interview with a parent about...
My wife and I are in the thick of the newborn phase with our first baby, Frances. In normal times, parenting a newborn is intense: sleepless nights, constant...
Recuerdo ser madre primeriza y sentirme más cansada que nunca. Mi bebé no dormía bien y me preguntaba cómo iba a aguantar el día, y mucho menos la etapa de...
I remember being a new mother and feeling more tired than ever. My baby didn’t sleep well, and I wondered how I was going to get through the day, let...
