Lauren Dunn

Lauren Dunn is a part time writer and strategic communicator. A Virginia native, Lauren lives in Richmond with her husband and 7-year-old son. Keeping prolific journals from a young age, Lauren uses writing to process her experiences and environment, trying her best to make sense of this utterly nonsensical, sometimes confounding, but always entertaining life.

Parenting

3 tips for parenting in the AI boom, from a Millennial mom raising a Gen Alpha son

How do we encourage our kids to work hard, do for themselves and use their own creative energy and mental labor to excel when nearly everything in their young lives can be automated, outsourced or generated?

Updated Jul. 03, 2024

Parenting, Child Learn & Play

little boy and dad playing baseball- we're a baseball family

Child Learn & Play

My 7-year-old watched ‘The Sandlot’—and now we’re a baseball family

One of the deepest joys was watching my husband and our son connect over the game.

Updated Jun. 28, 2024

Child Learn & Play

Motherly Stories

I am an only child mothering an only child—please don’t feel sorry for us

I understand now more about how deeply proud my own mother was of our “three pea pod,” as she named our small family, and how hard she worked to defend it.

Updated Mar. 28, 2025

Motherly Stories, Fertility Prep More, Infertility