Samm Davidson takes a little walk down memory lane today: “I remember watching my firstborn son waddle around the beach a few weeks after his first birthday. He wandered around the sand a bit before making his way over to a pair of brothers who were building a sandcastle. The scene was one from a storybook,” she writes. “At that moment, the baby fever crept its way in, and I thought to myself, wow — two years really seems like the perfect age gap.”

Wrong! And she’s gonna tell you why.

— Kelly Faircloth, Executive Editor

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I don’t know about you, but I get overwhelmed just thinking about when it’s time to let my kid have a cell phone. It’s not like I can refer back to my own childhood, when the only phone was in the kitchen. Lucky for me, Elizabeth Narins has consulted some experts and written up what she learned for us. It’s helpful!