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Children and parenting

What are the results of more parental supervision and less outdoor play?

Ups and downs for mental health and injury rates

It’s useful when either parent can handle things

When you can both fully take care of the kids, you have more options.

Investing in boundaries with young kids

Putting in some work to get the behavior you want

Some careers are overhyped to children

You will probably not have a career on the stage

The best kind of music to learn is social music

Will they ever stay up late playing this kind of music for fun?

How much to coerce children?

What’s “for their own good”?

How much time and money does an additional child take?

Some things scale, others don’t.

How did we decide to have a kid?

…and then some more kids?

Breastfeeding: might be nice, might be surprisingly terrible

The wide range of experiences

Childbirth location and safety

How much does it matter for you and for the baby?

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