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Please Stop Making Your Kid’s Birthday a Wedding (opens the original)
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In the last few months, both the WSJ and the NYT ran features about “lazy parents” who cap their kids’ extracurriculars to one at a time, let them roam the neighborhood without location tracking, and decline to pair their socks. My first reaction was: it’s about freaking time! We’ve been waiting SO long for a movement that pushes back against intensive parenting. Ma
Have a parent village? I want to interview you! (opens the original)
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You’re not parenting wrong. You’re just parenting alone.That’s the line that resonated with tens of thousands of exhausted parents who read my work here — and it’s the thesis of the book 🎉 I’m writing now.Here’s one of my core ideas: you don’t need a whole village. You just need two to three other families to change how parenting feels. These families aren’t necessarily your closest friends –– they’re the ones you’ve built a rhythm with, so that parenting just feels easier.I’m
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