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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt III

Welcome to the third and final (?!) portion of this post considering Jennifer Senior’s article in last summer’s New York Magazine, All Joy and No Fun (Why Parents Hate Parenting), which describes modern parenting as almost if not totally lacking in … Continue reading

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Choose Your Own Adventure Parenting pt II

I began this odyssey with the simple assertion that Jennifer Senior’s article, All Joy and No Fun, in last summer’s New York Magazine casts a wan pallor over the nature of parenting, and moreover, that Senior’s un-fun version, although not the only … Continue reading

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There’s Two Kinds of Authority, Partner

Last week, in the post, “Benefit of the Belief“, I brought up the idea that although we parents are the “authority figures” in the family, part of our parenting job is helping our kids become “authorities” on themselves. A lively … Continue reading

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