Category Parenting

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Raising One Child Now Costs…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

Raising a single child costs more than $43,000 a year in San…

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Parents Are Getting Two Different…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

Parents dropping kids off for back-to-school physicals this year are running into…

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One in Five Families Now…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

One in five American families paying for child care now spends more…

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Firstborn Kids Carry Higher Autism…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

A study spanning 10.3 million children with at least one sibling has…

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198 Kids Have Died in…

Sep 1, 20264 min read

Over a full decade, from 2013 through 2022, 198 children age 18…

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Toddler Needed Emergency Surgery After…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

A child needed emergency surgery to remove roughly 50 swallowed magnets and…

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165,000 More Walmart Dressers Are…

Sep 1, 20263 min read

Walmart and federal regulators are re-warning shoppers about 165,250 additional Mainstays nine-drawer…

About Me
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Madison Cates

Mom, Wife, Minimalist.

Join me in my journey to declutter my life and live a simply beautiful life.

Gallery

A holiday table set with patterned teacups, plates and a covered tureen (Unsplash photo by laura adai).
An open kitchen drawer filled with utensils and small tools (Unsplash photo by Orgalux).
Left: the Instagram reel cover from wildthoughts_podcast showing a woman with curly hair in a black headband in a parked car. Right: a white bed with a tufted headboard seen through an open bedroom door (Unsplash photo by Lisa Anna).
A football player in a blue number 5 jersey and helmet, seen from behind at sunset.
A yellow vinyl record with an orange label lying on a purple, pink and black background with another translucent record behind it.
Left: TikTok still of a hand holding a worn, stained scrubbing pad over a sink. Right: a pile of colorful plastic toys (Unsplash photo by Nareeta Martin).
Pink and clear glassware displayed on a wooden shelf (Unsplash photo by Loo Dalla Costa).
Two moments from an Instagram reel under the text 'What is it like to be a mother???': a mom standing in a kitchen with a teenage boy and a young boy, then the mom holding the young boy.
A room with wooden furniture and a painting on the wall (Unsplash photo by Theo Lonic).