Category: Parenting
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The Snoo Button
“All of humanity’s problems stem from man’s inability to sit quietly in a room alone.” -Blaise Pascal A friend of mine recently had a baby, so after congratulating her, I asked, rhetorically: “How’s everyone sleeping?” “Great,” she said, “thanks to the Snoo.” “The what?” “The Snoo. It’s an apparatus that swaddles your baby in a…
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A False Dichotomy: Following Money vs. Following Passion
“So, what’s next? What are you going to do with your life?” How are you going to earn money?” As seniors conclude their 12th year of formal schooling, they’re being bombarded with the same questions we fielded years ago. I remember struggling with these on the eve of my open house, where my parents’ friends…
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The New TikTok Challenge
For the impossible task of choosing a film for movie night with my kids, I’ve resorted to Googling “Best kids movies of 1984” so I can force them to watch what I watched as a six-year-old. They give it twenty minutes before they can turn it off. Last Friday I chose The Neverending Story, a film…
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