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Children and parenting

The best children’s books are easily found used online

Finding your next favorite on Ebay

Mutually exclusive parenting advice

When methods point in opposite directions

Advice for getting along with your kids

Lessons learned from the first 10 years

Relaxing my standards on housekeeping

Getting to “good enough”

Children’s appearance is over-controlled

Giving up control over choices that don’t belong to me

Coaching kids as they learn to climb

Helping kids learn to climb things that are at the edge of their ability

Conversations I often have about parenting

Topics that come up a lot

Raising children on the eve of AI

How do we prepare them for what we’re not prepared for?

The sugar budget

A method of deciding how much sugar kids can have

“Sugar rush” in children seems to be confirmation bias

There’s little evidence that sugar makes kids hyper.

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