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Babble.com’s readership has tripled in the past year and is still growing rapidly, indicating that today’s busy parents—especially those from Gen X and Gen Y—are hungry for advice. According to editor-in-chief Ada Calhoun, many parents are unnecessarily anxious, worrying and trying to follow advice from their own parents, other parents on the playground, or board-certified experts. She believes, “if we encourage our kids to be kind and generous and we trust our own instincts about all the other stuff, we may just be able to rear a generation of capable people—and stay relatively happy ourselves.” Sound easy? It is, and in Instinctive Parenting , Calhoun makes smart sense of all the available choices and opinions for how to raise one’s child “right.
About the Author
Ada Calhoun is the author of New York City history St. Marks Is Dead, essay collection Wedding Toasts I'll Never Give, and Generation X-defining New York Times bestseller and Indie Next pick Why We Can't Sleep: Women's New Midlife Crisis, named one of best nonfiction books of the year by the Amazon Editors. Her next book, Also a Poet: Frank O'Hara, My Father, and Me, comes out June 14, 2022.
