It's not easy for children to understand what their parents do for a living. If your mother or father is an engineer do they drive trains (that's a different engineer)? Do they design buildings ...

Since becoming a mom to now one-year-old twins, the question I hear more than any other is: What are you doing for child care? I used to hear it said with curiosity. Now, I hear it as a kind of quiet ...

Photo-Illustration by Chloe Dowling for TIME (Source Images: Ljupco/Getty Images, Focus Pixel Art/Getty Images, momentimages/Getty Images, Camille Ramos/sparklestroke via Canva) While parenting has ...