Annabel Monaghan
Annabel Monaghan is a lifestyle columnist at The Week and the author of Does This Volvo Make My Butt Look Big? (2016), a collection of essays for moms and other tired people. She is also the author of two novels for young adults, A Girl Named Digit (2012) and Double Digit (2014), and the co-author of Click! The Girls Guide to Knowing What You Want and Making it Happen (2007). She lives in Rye, New York, with her husband and three sons. Visit her at www.annabelmonaghan.com.
Latest articles by Annabel Monaghan
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What it's like to be a mother of only boys
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My kids have too many teeth
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How outlet malls mess with your mind
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How to survive your freshman year of college
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Some real advice for incoming college freshmen
feature The first year can be rough. Here's how to survive — and thrive — on campus.
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How my fantasy of marriage settled into the reality of marriage
feature Once you've moved through a patch of real life with someone, you learn a lot about the depth of their kindness, the strength of their integrity, and the staying power of their sense of humor
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My kids keep losing everything
feature It's okay. I know how to find everything.
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If I'm looking at you funny, it's because I secretly suspect you're an astronaut
feature What else could explain your rude failure to ignore all earthly laws?
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The time warp of back-to-school night
feature Why back-to-school night at your kid's high school makes you feel like a kid again
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My teenage sons are the smartest people I know. And sometimes the dumbest, too.
opinion Teenagers prove you can know everything and nothing all at once
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Why it's impossible to write a good college admission essay
feature If America's teenagers revealed their true essences, high-minded universities would flee in terror
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What today's teens miss about the tacky, terrible proms of the 1980s
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The suburbs are not as lame as you think
feature I assure you: We suburban moms are not all Chardonnay-sipping, sweatpants-wearing scrapbookers
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Psst: I know where your missing socks are
feature One of life's great mysteries, solved
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My undeniably brilliant play date pyramid scheme
feature Or how I learned to stop worrying and cash in on my kid's wild little friends
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Mom vs. the paper piles
feature The never-ending battle that explains why I still haven't signed my kids up for summer camp
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What I learned from the Sandy Hook moms
feature In the face of anything, we have the opportunity to choose love
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Want to raise winners? Give your kids a chance to lose
feature Parents: Quit your coddling!
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Memo to moms: Put yourself first
feature You're not doing your kids any favors by always prioritizing them
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The TV commercials of my childhood were very, very wrong about me
feature No, 1970s commercials, I don't want to squeeze the toilet paper. And I don't want to stop my kid from getting on that school bus.
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My family's holiday card is a total sham
feature The holiday card leaves no room for reality
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An open letter to my husband: Don't ask me what I'm up to today
feature Staying home isn't all naps and brunches
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It's time to kill school picture day
feature In this day and age, the last thing we need is more photos of our kids
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How to get invited back for Thanksgiving dinner
feature A comprehensive, unassailable guide to enjoying the holiday without the horrible fuss of hosting
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