Kinship - The Auntie Bulletin (Page 2)

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Aunties

Auntiehood is the Real “Having It All”

Here’s the beautiful thing about auntiehood: it lets up. Hey aunties! I had an exciting post teed up for you this week — one I’m really looking forward to getting out into the world — but I seem to be having a significant EDS flare-up. I’m coming off

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Community Care

Here's Your End-of-July Care Package

No-one can strive this time of year. It’s impossible. Take a break and read something great instead. I'm open about the Auntie Bulletin business finances, and right now I'm offering 30% off Auntie Bulletin subscriptions, forever, for readers on Ghost only. As content continues

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Aunties

How to Talk to Teenagers

It’s totally possible to have a good relationship with the teens in your life. Here’s how. Hi there, aunties on Ghost! Today I'm reaching out to you about a conundrum I hadn't anticipated (although I probably should have): when we have a threaded discussion

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Such Interesting Aunties

“It Was Like a 90s Summer Child Experience, but Indian Flavor”

What it's like when you actually have a village to raise a child I'm open about the Auntie Bulletin business finances, and right now I'm offering 30% off Auntie Bulletin subscriptions, forever, for readers on Ghost only. As content continues to be shared on

Culture

How to Support Troubled Youth and Their Families

Aunties as refuge I'm open about the Auntie Bulletin business finances, and right now I'm offering 30% off Auntie Bulletin subscriptions, forever, for readers on Ghost only. As content continues to be shared on this platform, I'm hoping we can row together like the

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Kinship

Here's Your End-of-June Care Package

It's vibe shift season, baby – and about time, too. Happy summer, aunties! I am loving all the pieces I’ve seen lately about a vibe shift in the direction of love, joy, caring, and community. No false modesty necessary here: we aunties have been on the hope train

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Culture

Where are the Trad Aunties?

There aren’t any, and that’s by design. So, have you read Yesteryear? I read the first two chapters as a free preview in the public library’s Libby app, and I think that’s enough for me. I’ll say more about why shortly. But first, for Auntie

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Community Care

On Quitting: How Sobriety Prepared Me for Infertility

And what came next… Today we have a guest post from the lovely Lexi Weber Johnson, whose work I didn’t know until she reached out to me to pitch this story about sobriety, infertility, and auntiehood. I took a look at her newsletter, Not Expecting, which turned out to

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Community Care

How Care Changes Dads’ Brains – and What That Means for Alloparents

“Attunement to a small person's needs is there in anyone, ready to get unlocked.” There’s not much social science research out there about alloparents. Here’s where you tend to find us: in biological research about the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, birds, primates – lots of aunties!) and

Aunties

Here’s Your End-of-May Care Package

Time to offset the fools on the news and soak up wholesome content instead. Hey Aunties, welcome to your end-of-May care package! This is the part where always I acknowledge what rough and ugly times we are living through (because it keeps on being true). I talk about

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Design

Rebranding The Auntie Bulletin

"Make it look like a pack of children’s markers, please." Today’s post is a little different from our typical content, aunties, but I’ve been slowly working toward a newsletter rebrand since the fall, and it’s finally time, and I’m really excited about it.

Culture

How to Rest

Uncomfortable truths that you probably won’t like, from someone who’s been forced to rest a lot. Rest! It’s the best! Or at any rate, rest would be the best if it weren’t so stupidly hard to pull off. Sure, it’s hard to carve out the