A Year in Review
Looking back on the best of 2025 (and taking a holiday break).
The Pomegranate has been spilling the juice on modern motherhood for almost a full year, and it’s time to do a retrospective. Also, it is the holiday season, and every mom you know (including each of us) is really tired. So today we’ll take a look back on some of our most popular pieces of the year, and then step back for a couple of weeks before returning in 2026.
In March, Kristen Mulrooney wrote…
In April, Amy Colleen wrote…
Car Seats and the Illusion of Control
Content warning: frank discussions of vehicle-related injury and death, as well as postpartum depression and anxiety.
In May, Sarah Radz wrote…
Stop the Helicopter Parents
It was the first sunny Friday of the springtime, and the playground was full of children. Preschool had just let out, and twenty tiny bodies descended on the play structure like ants on a picnic. Most of the parents naturally started milling around the perimeter, chit-chatting about weekend plans, keeping a watchful eye. The little bodies scampered and played freely all over the playground, unimpeded by anything, except one large man.
In August, Lauren Ahmed wrote…
Children's Spaces With No Children
About two years ago, we booked a trip to Disney World. I joined a handful of social media groups to help me plan, since I hadn’t been to Disney since I was a child. A few weeks ago, mid-insomnia-scroll of one of these groups, a popular thread popped up. A new adults-only lounge has launched at one of the parks and posters were compa…
In September, Lucy Huber wrote…
A Typical Day Parenting When My Husband is Out of Town
5:07 am: My husband leans over and kisses me. He’s leaving for the airport to go to Boston for a three-day work trip. For the next four hours, while I get the kids ready for school, he will sit on the subway, wait in the airport, and then sit on a plane with nothing to do but probably scroll through his phone.
Bonus— our most popular guest piece was Carlos Greaves’ When an Anxious Child Becomes an Anxious Parent, our Father’s Day feature!
What was your favorite Pom piece of the year? What would you like to read more about in 2026? Sound off in the comments! We’ll be back in your inboxes on January 1st.
Just a note of encouragement for all of the Pomegranate writers- you are giving a voice to each of your perspectives on parenting, and it’s refreshing to read about your individual insights. Keep up this good and necessary work in the new year!
Congrats on your first year!