I Neglect My Dog Now That I Have Kids (Sorry, Pooch!)

By Rachel Saslow

Before I was a mom, I made many naïve promises to myself about how I would parent. I swore I would never smell my kid’s diaper in mixed company, never discuss the boring intricacies of her sleep habits, and not compare her milestones to other babies’. (Did all of them, by the way.) But the big one was this: I would never neglect my dog.…

Rachel Saslow
Rachel Saslow

Rachel Saslow is a former newspaper reporter and current stay-at-home mom who crams all of her writerly ambitions into naptime. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband, their two young daughters and a grumpy cockapoo. In her spare time, she enjoys reading, hiking, celebrity gossip and going to dance classes and then undoing all of her efforts with cookies and wine. Her health and parenting writing appears in The Washington Post.

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