Why this site exists

Most parenting content online is one of three things: a brand selling you a course, a wellness essay telling you to enjoy every moment, or a moral panic about what screens are doing to your kid’s prefrontal cortex. None of those is much help on a Wednesday at 6:47pm when your eight-year-old has melted down over a math worksheet and your four-year-old is unscrewing the salt shaker because nobody is watching.

myparentinglife is the publication we wished existed when we became second-time parents and realized we had less patience for parenting content than we had the first time around — not because we needed it less, but because most of it sounded the same.

How we write

Plain language. Specifics over slogans. We name the trade-offs. When we cite research, we name the researcher and the journal — not “studies show.” When we share what worked in our house, we say it’s our house, not a method.

We try not to read like a brand. We are deliberately not a “mama” or a “family of five” or any of the other personae the genre rewards. We’re parents who read carefully, write slowly, and try to leave room for our readers to disagree.

What we’re not

We’re not a service. We don’t sell a course, a meal plan, or a $400 carrier. We don’t run affiliate links. We’re not your pediatrician, your kid’s teacher, or your therapist. The research we cite is a starting point for the conversations we hope you’ll have with the actual people who know your kid.

What we owe you when we’re wrong

Parenting research updates. We will too. When we change our minds about something we wrote, we’ll say so on the article itself with a date. We won’t silently edit and pretend we always thought that. When we’re working from a contested study, we’ll say it’s contested.

If you want to reach us

We don’t have a contact form yet, and we don’t want one — forms invite the kind of correspondence we can’t respond to well. Email is fine: [email protected]. We read everything. We can’t always reply.