Fun Tween Things

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Fun Tween Things

Oh! I have a wonderful suggestion for you — the Auntie Bulletin, a newsletter by Lisa Sibbett, which explores living a “childful life” as a childfree person. Her latest newsletter is all about the best way to decide whether you want kids: in short, spend lots of time with families. (It’s much more nuanced, interesting, and expansive than I can summarize; I found it really interesting).

As a new first time parent who spent years trying to decide, I’ll only say that there is probably no secret right path for you — either choice can be the right one without either being the wrong one, if that makes sense. I have found parenthood to bring unprecedented joy as well as unprecedented pain. I don’t think there’s a balance sheet that can rightly account for all of it.