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Julia and I have three kids, Lily, Anna, and Nora. As of early 2022, they are seven, five, and zero. As a parent, my goal is to show them how to do things, do for them what they can't do yet, and help them grow into the people they want to be.

• Sleep Training
  October 04, 2022
• Baby Monitor with Delay
  October 02, 2022
• Another Loft Bed
  September 30, 2022
• Prioritizing Parental Sleep
  September 29, 2022
• Planning a Loft Bed
  September 25, 2022
• Tuesday Family Dinner
  September 21, 2022
• Pretending not to Notice
  September 18, 2022
• Stop Discouraging Microwave Formula Preparation
  September 01, 2022
• Two Kids Crosswise
  August 04, 2022
• Perverse Independence Incentives
  July 31, 2022
• Babysitting as Parenting Trial?
  July 07, 2022
• Predicting Parental Emotional Changes?
  July 06, 2022
• Child Contracting
  June 25, 2022
• House Phone
  June 21, 2022
• Another Calming Example
  June 02, 2022
• Only Asking Real Questions
  April 10, 2022
• Buy-in Before Randomization
  April 08, 2022
• Baby Sleep: Multiple Rooms
  April 05, 2022
• Approach to Screen Time
  April 02, 2022
• Kids Posts Retrospective
  March 31, 2022
• Decreasing Isolation Further
  February 07, 2022
• Sledding Is Underrated
  February 05, 2022
• January 2022 Time Tracking
  February 02, 2022
• Infant Talk boxes?
  January 30, 2022
• 5x5 Go Board
  January 22, 2022
• Grandpa Has Different Rules
  January 21, 2022
• Speed Pasta Bake
  January 19, 2022
• Teaching Street Crossing
  January 16, 2022
• Baby Nicknames
  December 12, 2021
• Snoo App Thoughts
  November 28, 2021
• Baby Sister Numbers
  November 03, 2021
• How Much is a Sweet?
  October 30, 2021
• Child Walksheds
  October 25, 2021
• What's your plan?
  October 12, 2021
• Candy Innovation
  October 04, 2021
• Walkie-Talkies
  September 23, 2021
• Kids Moving Pictures
  September 17, 2021
• History of counting to three?
  September 15, 2021
• Childcare III
  September 11, 2021
• Thinking About College Funding
  September 09, 2021
• Bikes and Babies
  September 05, 2021
• Kids Roaming
  September 04, 2021
• Preschooler Turnovers
  July 05, 2021
• To the Robobassinet and Progress
  June 21, 2021
• Walking to School
  June 14, 2021
• Alarms Are Better Than Chivvying
  June 11, 2021
• Kids NCurses Messenger
  May 22, 2021
• Car Seats Three Across
  May 01, 2021
• Seatbelt Extenders and Booster Seats
  March 14, 2021
• Car Thoughts
  March 07, 2021
• Bakeoff
  March 06, 2021
• Watching themselves
  February 12, 2021
• Bets, Bonds, and Kindergarteners
  January 03, 2021
• Waffle Crepes
  November 02, 2020
• Trick-or-treating in Covid Times
  October 30, 2020
• Three car seats?
  October 01, 2020
• The Best Toy In The Park
  August 25, 2020
• Growing Independence
  June 07, 2020
• Simplifying Board Games
  May 31, 2020
• Kids and Time
  May 12, 2020
• Kids and Moral Agency
  May 08, 2020
• Helping Lily Make Dinner
  April 26, 2020
• Helping the kids post
  April 17, 2020
• The Typing Game
  April 13, 2020
• Kids Ear Protection
  April 06, 2020
• Cloudy With a Chance of Meatballs PS3 Review
  March 30, 2020
• King and Princess
  March 16, 2020
• Eggy Waffles
  December 13, 2019
• Fractional Sweets
  December 12, 2019
• Elementary Statistics
  December 05, 2019
• Drawing on Walls
  November 19, 2019
• Playing Dances With a Kid
  November 03, 2019
• Transportation Tracking
  October 15, 2019
• Eight O'Clock is Relative
  October 05, 2019
• Ideal Number of Parents
  October 04, 2019
• Thermal Mass Thermos
  September 30, 2019
• Candy for Nets
  September 29, 2019
• Dressing Outside
  August 30, 2019
• Eggy Crepes
  August 28, 2019
• Negative "eeny meeny miny moe"
  August 19, 2019
• Pronouns for preverbal children
  August 04, 2019
• They might say no
  June 22, 2019
• Gender in What Do People Do All Day
  June 20, 2019
• Kid Door
  June 09, 2019
• Parenting: Optional vs Required
  May 31, 2019
• Lessons From Dropping Out
  May 25, 2019
• Equal Parenting Advice for Dads
  March 12, 2019
• Present Timing for Kids
  December 20, 2018
• Snowpants
  December 09, 2018
• Tickling
  October 06, 2018
• Portable Ice Cream
  August 12, 2018
• How to parent more predictably
  July 10, 2018
• Street Training
  July 03, 2018
• Predictable Parenting
  June 09, 2018
• Reading to Kids
  May 29, 2018
• A calming strategy
  December 06, 2017
• Small Child Handrails
  September 25, 2017
• Kids and Global Warming
  September 21, 2017
• Childcare II
  July 23, 2017
• Carcassonne For Kids
  February 13, 2017
• On Sharing
  September 07, 2016
• Velcro Blackout Curtains
  May 08, 2016
• One more
  February 15, 2016
• Cosleeper
  July 19, 2015
• Parenting and Emotional Changes
  July 13, 2015
• Lullabies
  June 28, 2015
• Subway Synchronization Protocol
  June 17, 2015
• Baby Sack as Coat
  January 17, 2015
• Childcare
  December 23, 2014
• Baby Sleep II
  October 27, 2014
• Childcare Costs
  October 13, 2014
• Microwaving Milk Is Fine
  October 04, 2014
• Sleeping in Darkness
  September 06, 2014
• Baby Sleep
  August 27, 2014
• Baby Time Inequality
  August 20, 2014
• Microwaving Breast Milk
  June 08, 2014
• Baby
  March 27, 2014
• Breast-style Bottle Nipples
  December 31, 2013
• Wearable Infant Carseats
  December 01, 2013
• OK to Have Kids?
  October 22, 2013
• Initial Baby Picture
  September 29, 2013
• Parenting and Happiness
  October 03, 2012