readtheprofile.com

Who Is Meghan Markle?

I hope it can now be understood that, despite certain media publications' distortion over the years, any distance from my father and my choice to not allow him to have contact with our children, was for one reason: to protect them.

lennysnewsletter.com

OpenAI Dev Day 2026: The releases that actually matter

I let my kids redesign a 3D world in real time. That last experiment cost about $97. My wallet has thoughts.

jefftweedy

KC Rain (No Wonder) [demo with Sammy and Spencer]

One of the great, truly mysterious gifts in my life is that my children want to hang out with me at all, much less participate in the most sustaining thing I do throughout my life. And enhance it and help me grow, and let me be part of how they grown into musicians—to help them achieve being musicians in a way that allows them to express themselves, and hopefully keep music central to their lives in a way that's not just based on commerce or notoriety, but centered on the joy that comes with being able to play music with other people, and listening to other people when you play.

notboring.co

Would We Send Our Kids to HAA?

The challenge with that, though, is that who knows what a good job will be in fifteen years? Our parents didn't send us to McGill and Duke to become bloggers. But one of the things you learn raising kids is that it's a lot easier to move with them than against them. If they can find something they love, your effort will go to getting them to stop doing it instead of getting them to start.

wired.com

Want to Get Off Your Phone? Mina Kimes Suggests Having a Baby

"I think that's been the most helpful thing," says the ESPN journalist. "So there you go, Zoomers. There's a reason to have children."

wired.com

Skylight Buddy Review (2026): Kid Routines Just Got Easy

This kid-friendly version of Skylight's digital calendar actually gets my son to complete his nighttime routine in a timely fashion.

platformer.news

Why social media bans are gaining steam

Depressed girls use social media more, she says, but social media use doesn't seem to predict later depression. The real crisis, in Odgers' telling, is among adults: parental overdose deaths more than doubled between 2011 and 2021, and caregivers' mental health is among the strongest predictors of child outcomes.

themarginalian.org

How Evolution Invented Faith: The Patience of the Penguin and the Art of Withstanding Abandonment

The male's stoic, heroic devotion to his duty as incubator and nurse must be unique in nature, involving that almost incredibly long fast under conditions of exposure to intense frost that would kill most other living creatures. It is at last rewarded, while the rookery is still sunless in July, by the return of his mate, fat and full-bellied from her long sojourn amid the krill and small fishes.

wired.com

The Backward Logic of Chickenpox Parties

Before vaccines, some parents intentionally exposed their children to the virus. In the internet age, that thinking is resurfacing.

longreads.com

Asian Mothers, Bad Feelings: Notes on An All-conquering Stereotype

These mothers face a double bind. They hope to raise children unburdened by the past, comfortable in their new homeland, enjoying opportunities they never had themselves. If they succeed – as with many immigrant parents around the world – their prize is a child who is unintelligible to them.

longreads.com

The Devil’s Crown

But I think this may be parenthood—to give our best love to the ones we hurt most.

readtheprofile.com

The Profile: The world’s most disruptive company & the best-selling author on the planet

If you really think about it, "intensity," "consistency" and "authenticity" apply to almost everything that matters. Raising children requires intensity — that ferocious love and superhuman strength that shows up at 3 a.m. when you're exhausted but still rocking a baby back to sleep. Building something meaningful requires consistency — the unglamorous act of showing up again and again, long after the initial excitement fades.