HeyJaredSomeone Should Do Something
Finding the ways to be someone. Stories about pediatrics, politics, and parenting.
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The Unlikely Places We Meet (opens the original)
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You would be hard-pressed to find two people who grew up more differently than my husband and I.Born on literal opposite sides of the globe into two different cultures, religions, sets of traditions, and languages, people wonder—sometimes out loud—how we ever ended up together.<div class="fake-inpu
In over my head. (opens the original)
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I didn’t write anything new this week.Well that’s not true, I wrote lots of words—just not ones I can share here.I am presenting at a pediatrics conference in a few days on the topic of legislative advocacy. I signed up to give a workshop but decided this would not be a regular workshop.Instead, I created a murder-mystery-dinner-party-style game.About the Texas Legislature.I have a full cast of faculty and a slew of participant roles. Mixed in there somewhere is a secret “bill killer,” as well a
Preparing for What Comes After (opens the original)
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Midway through my second trimester, pregnant with my third kid, I was sitting at my nephew’s birthday party when a portal notification popped up on my phone.It was my most recent lab results including my glucose tolerance test. Never having had glucose issues in the past, I clicked the link, expecting to see normal results.A bright red number stared at me instead.I reloaded the page hoping it was some kind of error. There was no mistake though. I had “failed” the screening test for gestational d
I Hate Political Postcards (opens the original)
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Do Something: small actions, big impactA note around the first of each month with one small, timely action you can take to help make the world a little better for our kids.You can explore past posts in this series here.One morning nearly five years ago now, I woke up with a crick in my neck in Laguna Beach, California. Jawad was attending a conference and the kids and I had tagged along. Each morn
More Than Enough (opens the original)
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Recently, I made the brilliant decision to have the kids cook dinner once a week. We subscribe to a meal kit service and some of the recipes are fairly easy. Working together, my 8 and 5-year-olds can usually make the 15-minute-meals in less than an hour. They enjoy it, and it’s one less thing I have to do. It’s also teaching them some life skills, maybe.On Tuesday, they were making tacos and I was patting myself on the back for my parenting genius.My 8-year-old assigned the 5-year-old to tortil
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