Meg St-Esprit

Jasper, 13 months old, has no baby friends. At this point, he has lived half his life in the pandemic, with no change in the foreseeable future. His mom, Chelsea Clinton, feels guilty about this, but like all of us, is powerless to change much right…

Raising a child supposedly costs you a quarter of a million dollars, but it can honestly be more daunting to face the idea of spending $80 on bottle nipples in a single month. Expense Report gives us a look into the spending, scrimping, and wishing…

The kids are playing nicely, but Sex and the City star Kristin Davis stuffs a mattress cover against the gap at the bottom of her office door to muffle the sounds of her children just in case. She fully expects her toddler to interrupt the…

Nine-year-old Maeve Scheler of York, Pennsylvania, received the book Who Is Ruth Bader Ginsburg? from her mom Amanda last Christmas, a gift that wasn’t particularly remarkable in any way. But when schools shut down this March due to the pandemic,…

Moms know the deep value of female friendship, and the impact it has on our well-being. We all need the friend who finishes our sentences, calls us on our crap, and shows up with a latte when the day has been just too rough to handle without a hug…

As Meredith Masony tries to promote her new book, Ask Me What’s for Dinner One More Time from her home office, her family of five, plus-dogs, continually barges into the room. One might wonder why she doesn’t lock the door, but her house has no…

Raising a child supposedly costs you a quarter of a million dollars, but it can honestly be more daunting to face the idea of spending $80 on bottle nipples in a single month. Expense Report gives us a look into the spending, scrimping, and wishing…

Learning pods. When those words started flying across parenting groups, you could almost hear the battle lines being drawn. "Pods" are groups of families banding together to form "micro-schools" during the COVID-19 pandemic, some by hiring private…

Raising a child supposedly costs you a quarter of a million dollars, but it can honestly be more daunting to face the idea of spending $80 on bottle nipples in a single month. Expense Report gives us a look into the spending, scrimping, and wishing…

For Brittany Daily, the owner of two daycare centers in Youngstown, Ohio, business never closed. Catering to the children of essential employees, she actually expanded services due to demand. “We are bleaching and sanitizing toys constantly,” she…

For over two months, America did a really good job of social distancing. We did such a good job, we began to pat ourselves on the backs. Cell phone movement analyzed by Reuters showed that the majority of us stayed home through March, April, and…

In Lowville, New York, Jessica Zehr just completed her nursing degree. Mother to twin 5-year-old boys, one of whom has Down syndrome, and wife to Elias, who is three years post-lung transplant, she has spent a great deal of time making medical…

In mid-March, as the nature of the novel coronavirus was becoming more clear, much was unknown about how bad things would get. Work-from-home orders and school closures began in Seattle in early March, and rolled across the nation over the weeks…

We have now entered the “social distancing” stage of the novel coronavirus pandemic, and parents know that kids find this impossible to do. The World Health Organization advises against touching your eyes, nose, or mouth, and keeping a 3-foot…

What is better than a giant animatronic mouse and his band singing happy birthday while a dozen kids chow down on mediocre pizza? What is more exciting than racking up points to earn tiny plastic trinkets that will break by tomorrow while parents…

Romper is conducting a year-long conversation with members of the Mom 2.0 community about how to "make it." Get inspired here. The person behind That’s Inappropriate, Meredith Masony, is talking to me via video-chat in her studio when her husband…

Families of all different abilities drove hundreds of miles to visit Barbara Butler’s first adaptive play structure, The Magical Bridge Playground, opened in Palo Alto in 2015. Butler, an artist, had been designing and building custom play…

Around the dueling pianos of work-life and home-life, there is a school of thought that says a true feminist doesn’t go silently into the night: she brings her baby to work. This way, she need not choose between career and motherhood: they will…

After a miscarriage, Stacey Ramsower, a doula, felt in turmoil. “I had this being pass through my body, but I wasn’t breastfeeding, laying in bed resting, or anything,” she says. Everything we do for mothers after birth “focuses on the physical…