Now What

Science journalist Melinda Wenner Moyer writes Now What from the same place that produced her book "How to Raise Kids Who Aren't Assholes": a reporter's instinct to go find the research before offering an opinion. Each issue usually starts with a reader's specific, slightly embarrassing question, about sibling fights, screen limits, or how much to intervene in friendships, and traces it back to child development research.

It reads less like advice and more like a friend who happens to report on science for a living, which keeps it from feeling preachy. Readers who want certainty might be frustrated; the honest "it depends, and here's why" answers are the point.