Category: Parenting
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A Fish In Water
“The greatest burden a child must bear is the unlived lives of his parents.”—Carl Jung I spent three hours at a swim meet at Mack Pool in Ann Arbor last Tuesday, packed thigh to thigh on bleachers with a hundred other parents, cheering on my 9-year-old, who was in the water for exactly 3 minutes…
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I Read It So You Don’t Have To (But You Should)
I’m one of those annoying people who recommends books. It’s less about expecting people to read the book than it is about feeling a physical compulsion to recommend it – as if I swallowed the book and need to puke it up all over everyone. Most people do not read the books I recommend. Dad,…
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A Coach On The Brink
Nine seconds left. Bucks are down two. They’ve got to get it up the floor quickly to tie or win the game. The coach has a timeout to burn but decides not to interrupt the flow of the game because his team has been on a furious comeback. The point guard brings it up, dribbles to space,…
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