HeyJaredThe Other Side | Kaleidoscope
A Kaleidoscope project - Making parenting a little less lonely and a lot more honest.
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- Sep 5, 2026
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Clothing my Children and Screaming into the Void (opens the original)
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Until my daughter was in third grade or so, I enjoyed the great pleasure of picking out all her clothes. Let the record state: I was good at this.That is, until third grade. Then she decided that no, I wasn’t good at this. Also, dresses are disgusting.I’d dressed her almost exclusively in dresses, watched her twirl delightedly, and enjoyed it immensely—so this was a shock to the system.She wanted control, but she was only 9.I wanted control, but she was 9 now.So, I found mys
A Complicated Story (opens the original)
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A tiny baby girl is born on a crisp and clear fall night, and placed directly on the chest of her nervous young mother. The circumstances of her brand new life in this world are tenuous, unclear. A nurse at the hospital makes a phone call to authorities. Four days later, after being given two minutes to answer, “Will you take her?”, this baby girl sleeps peacefully in a bassinet next to me, miles and miles from her birth mother.It is a tragedy so big no child should ever have to live through it—
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