Phil Mackenzie is a fitness influencer whose grandparents inspired him to be fit. He says his granddad, 84, can do 500 push-ups, while his nanny, 80, walks for two hours a day. He says he wants to ...

Good Job is Slate’s advice column on work. Have a workplace problem big or small? Send it to Laura Helmuth and Doree Shafrir ...

I have always had a strong paternal instinct. Then, in 2018, I thought: What better way to channel that, than to look after children? So, I signed up a remote nanny website. I didn't need to do any ...

I was born into one of Poland’s wealthiest families. My father and his father before him were industrialists and had made millions of dollars supplying steel for the railroads to Russia. We lived in a ...

People often say it takes a village to raise a kid. Well, not everyone in the village is always up for the job — and that’s exactly what 20-year-old Alyson found out the hard way.Alyson wrote us a ...

The magazine’s Ethicist columnist on the social costs of speaking up about an unjust situation. By Kwame Anthony Appiah My friend’s nanny is good friends with my own nanny. Over the years, my nanny ...

This piece was originally published in Slate on July 16, 2014. I was frantically tapping away at my office computer when my phone buzzed. “Nancy,” our nanny’s name, flashed on the screen. Smiling, I ...

They have both been in my life since the day I was born. They babysat me while my mom and dad finished high school and worked. I lived with Mommy, Daddy and Nanny Dee, and my Nanny and Poppy lived ...

Love and family don’t always follow the story we expect. Sometimes the hardest sacrifices go unnoticed, and the people we ...

That impressive vocal ability was just part of what I learned about my newly adopted pup, Nymeria (aka "Meerie"), as I watched her, pacing and barking non-stop, from a dog nanny cam live feed on my ...