New Disney Halloween Slippers Include 'Nightmare Before Christmas' & Maleficent Designs

Disney ‘Tis the season for all things Halloween, and honestly, you can’t have the holiday without Disney. Some of the most iconic Halloween characters and movies are from the brand, and that means the Disney Store has plenty of Halloween decorations, costumes, and even cozy sleepwear to represent...

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A Doctor’s Back-To-School Guide For Moms With Severe Asthma

Back-to-school season is here, which means that the workload of many moms has doubled — nay, tripled! During this busy time, it’s all too common for moms to let their own health and well-being fall by the wayside. This can have serious consequences, especially for those with chronic health conditions...

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The Unexpected Joy Of Sharing Your Kid’s Hobbies

Nikada/E+/Getty Images My daughter is making me learn about plants. By that I mean she will literally stop in the middle of a walk, hand me my phone, and ask me to look up the name of a plant she’s not familiar with. And I have learned so much! I finally know what rhododendrons are, I have a favorite...

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18 Halloween Nails For 2024 That Are Trendy, Colorful, & Spooky

@nailsby.hannahlouise Nail girlies, it’s time. The first big holiday in far too many months — Halloween — is now upon us. That means ‘tis the season to break out all the spooky, weird, colorful, terrifying Halloween nail inspo pics you’ve been bookmarking up until now. The ideal Halloween nails for...

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Kids Need More Freedom. Here Are 25 Ways To Give It To Them.

Ariela Basson/Romper; Stocksy, Getty Images Last year, a letter in the medical journal Pediatrics argued that the frightening decline in mental health among American kids can be partly explained by a lack of independent play. When kids don’t get to solve their own problems, the researchers wrote,...

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Interview with JoAnna Garcia Swisher

— Ariela Basson/Romper; Shutterstock Like many moms of school-aged kids, JoAnna Garcia Swisher [Sweet Magnolias, Reba] spends a lot of her time in the car. Her daughters — Emerson, 11, and Sailor, 8 whom she shares with her husband Nick Swisher— are always off to somewhere. School, horseback riding...

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A Supreme Court Justice Invented Trimesters As We Know Them

— Ariela Basson/Romper; Getty Images, Shutterstock While promoting my first book at readings and book club gatherings and libraries around the country, I spent most of my time talking about abortion. I made jokes about my cervix; I cried (and laughed) with readers who so generously and movingly shared...

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Mammogram Results Will Tell You If You Have Dense Breasts Starting Today

— FG Trade/E+/Getty Images If you’ve ever gotten a mammogram and read through your results, you probably saw that section that says “you may have dense breasts, yada yada yada.” Well, telling someone they may or may not have something is... less than helpful. But starting September 10, the U.S. Food...

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Everyone Told Me That Freezing My Eggs Would Make Me Less Anxious But Actually I Can't Stop Crying

Last fall I was sitting in my therapist’s office, crying about whether I would ever have kids. In my 20s, it had been so easy to swear I would never be this woman: obsessed with fertility, reducing her life and body to a steadily-ticking time bomb. But nothing humbles you like the passage of time,...

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Walmart 2024 Top Toys List Is Officially Here & Includes Barbie, LEGO, & Disney

— Walmart I will forever miss the big holiday catalogs coming in the mail, but the Walmart 2024 Top Toys List coming out each year nearly fills that hole. With three small kids who don’t watch a whole lot of cable TV — and therefore miss a lot of commercials that they can shout, “Ooh I want that!”...

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Dads Need Friends, Too

The vasectomy party was a turning point. My husband had recently befriended a local dad crew, and Jonah, a father of two girls who worked in renewable energy and surfed on the weekends, was due for his. Jonah accidentally scheduled his vasectomy for a day his wife was out of town, natch, so Chris,...

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