The first day of the new year is always a good time for a little nostalgia. Today, we looked back through all of the articles we published in 2017 and collected the best of the best here for your easy perusal (and so you can at least look like you’re working). From education, to entertainment; from the Blue Whale Game, to coding; from sex, to abortion, we tried to cover the issues our readers and the world grappled with in real time. Here they are below — the best of 

birth method affects a baby’s microbiome

We asked and answered why kids ask so many questions in 

this exploration of the role of the question

 in kids’ development. We looked into the 

difference between growth and fixed mindsets

 to build growth mindset in kids. And we broke down teen developmental milestones to understand 

what might make risky ‘games’ like the Blue Whale Game appealing

We turned the microscope on ourselves, looking into how parenting is different, for better or worse, 

in an era when kids must compete with technology

We walked on the cutting edge of pedagogy to find out what 

education might look like in the not-too-distant future

how to spot what’s actually educational

 amid the sea of digital media for kids.)

, finding access to easy divorce really is better for society by any number of indicators.

 with the founder of MakeLoveNotPorn.tv; learned what to do when you (inevitably and awkwardly) 

; answered all your questions about the 

; and explored India’s muddled and misleading field of 

what time-out is, what it’s not, and how to introduce it

what to do if you think your child is gay

what it means to be a supportive parent to an LGBTQ child

growing relationship between motherhood and wine

 and asked whether it’s empowering or simply covering up a bigger problem.

Kiran Kumbhar probed India’s desperate need for more abortion providers and called for policies that would 

enable easier and safer access to abortion

rising C-section rate and called for a more effective approach

 to curbing it than ‘naming and shaming’ doctors.

 that leaves boy students behind, looked into 

whether it’s as essential for kids to learn coding

 as everyone seems to think, and asked our network of experts 

whether inclusive education can really benefit all children

We shook our fists over the fact that damaging gender norms (like the ones that lead to quantifiable differences in the 

amounts of time men and women spend on housework and child care

 about how their childhoods in Kolkata influenced their music and videos. And we introduced 

, our collection of all of the celebrity and/or intellectual gossip shared amongst our team each week.