HeyJaredHow To Watch TV With Your Kid
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Use Me (opens the original)
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Eighty minutes into the morning’s walk, a few blocks west of the lake, Fiona Apple’s cover of “Use Me” popped into my head. A song I had once loved that—until this moment on South Boulevard—I forgot existed.(You should probably listen to it.)Subscribe nowI don’t listen to music when I push the baby in his stroller. He’s just shy of three months
"GO BIG, Go Hot Wheels" (opens the original)
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In the “Lego Workshop,” the rectangular area underneath his lofted bed, my son is building a Lego police boat. It’s the most fun (read: not a wearable) of the big-brother gifts he’s received. Last year, when he was five years old, he and I built this exact kit, complete with absconded jailbird and grimacing shark, together at the kitchen table. I organized the pieces by color and handed them to him as he worked through the instruction manual; I provided a boost when he migrated from his own chai
Newborn Reading Notes, Vol. 1 (opens the original)
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Last Monday, I had a baby. In the days leading up to my due date, I caught myself saying, future-tensed: “Coco won’t be able to come in for her groom on the 22nd— I’m having a baby.” I could’ve forgone a rationale, but I like to say the thing—especially the big thing—even if doing so I bury the lede.That tendency is fodder for an essay. Not this one. Essay this ain’t. For the past ten days, I’ve been on newborn time, that aqueous and adamantine clock. <p cl
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