About
Slow notes on raising children in a fast country.
The Cradle Press is an independent online magazine founded in 2025 to do one thing: long-form, careful reporting on the parts of life that move too slowly to make the daily wire feeds.
The Cradle Press is a quarterly editorial of family life, early childhood, schools, books for children, and the long ordinary days of raising small humans.
The magazine is run by a small editorial collective, the The Cradle Press Editorial Trust, constituted as a non-profit publisher. Decisions about coverage, accuracy, and editorial direction are taken independently of any commercial interest. We do not run display advertising.
We publish under five named contributors who together edit and write the magazine. You can read about each on the contributor pages. Pieces are commissioned, reported, edited, fact-checked, and published in roughly four-week cycles.
We hold ourselves to three standards. Our editorial policy, our style guide, our ethics statement.
Write to us at editor@thecradlepress.co.
The masthead
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Wren Halligan founded The Cradle Press after fifteen years editing for a family quarterly. She has two children and the kind of small house most readers will recognize.
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Marisol Fuentes taught second grade in a Texas public school for twelve years before she came to The Cradle Press as Schools editor.
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Jude Eaton is a children's-book scholar who edits The Cradle Press's Books for Kids section from a flat in Stockbridge.
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Naya Mehta is a paediatric dietician who writes about feeding and sleeping families for The Cradle Press, and edits both sections.
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Saira Rao ran a forest-school program for six years and now edits The Cradle Press's Outdoor Childhood section.