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Julia and I have three kids, Lily (10y), Anna (8y), and Nora (3y). I want 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.

• Kids and Cleaning
  August 23, 2025
• Two Kinds of Do Overs
  July 31, 2025
• Shallow Water is Dangerous Too
  July 19, 2025
• Busking with Kids
  June 08, 2025
• Letting Kids Be Outside
  June 07, 2025
• Solo Park Play at Three
  June 06, 2025
• Quick Minimal Playhouse
  May 28, 2025
• Electric Lunchbox
  April 09, 2025
• Pictures for 2024
  March 23, 2025
• Silly Time
  March 21, 2025
• Middle School Choice
  March 03, 2025
• Maximally Eggy Crepes
  January 19, 2025
• Robbin's Farm Sledding Route
  December 21, 2024
• First Solo Bus Ride
  December 03, 2024
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2018
  November 23, 2024
• Trading Candy
  October 31, 2024
• Sleeping on Stage
  October 21, 2024
• You're Playing a Rough Game
  October 17, 2024
• Moonlight
  October 15, 2024
• Parental Writing Selection Bias
  October 13, 2024
• A Triple Decker for Elfland
  October 10, 2024
• August 2024 Time Tracking
  August 23, 2024
• Cat Sustenance Fortification
  July 21, 2024
• If You Can Climb Up, You Can Climb Down
  July 29, 2024
• Turning Your Back On Traffic
  July 16, 2024
• Child Handrail Returns
  July 14, 2024
• A Second Wetsuit Summer
  July 12, 2024
• Summer Tour Stops
  July 09, 2024
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2019
  June 23, 2024
• Gizmo Watch Review
  June 18, 2024
• Calling My Second Family Dance
  June 17, 2024
• Two Family Dance Flyers
  June 09, 2024
• Offering Completion
  June 06, 2024
• Haymarket at Closing Time
  May 04, 2024
• Extra Tall Crib
  May 03, 2024
• Playing Northboro with Lily and Rick
  April 27, 2024
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2020
  April 13, 2024
• Photo Curation Approach
  March 25, 2024
• Parent-Friendly Dance Weekends
  March 19, 2024
• Sledding Among Hazards
  January 07, 2024
• Flagging Potentially Unfair Parenting
  December 26, 2023
• The Serendipity of Density
  December 16, 2023
• Disappointing Table Refinishing
  December 03, 2023
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2021
  November 09, 2023
• Griffin Island
  October 07, 2023
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2022
  September 26, 2023
• Keeping Dresser Drawers In
  September 16, 2023
• Padding the Corner
  September 12, 2023
• Text Posts from the Kids Group: 2023 I
  September 04, 2023
• Loft Bed Fan Guard
  August 29, 2023
• Trying a Wet Suit
  August 27, 2023
• Lemonade Stand Costs?
  August 25, 2023
• Perpetually Declining Population?
  August 06, 2023
• "Building a House" Review
  July 31, 2023
• Secure Hand Holding
  July 24, 2023
• Weekday Evening Beach Picnics
  July 07, 2023
• Park Toys
  June 23, 2023
• Bringing Little Kids to Contra Dances
  June 08, 2023
• Ages Survey: Results
  June 04, 2023
• Phone Number Jingle
  May 23, 2023
• DCF Event Notes
  May 17, 2023
• Lazy Baked Mac and Cheese
  May 16, 2023
• Class-Based Addressing
  May 10, 2023
• Making Up Baby Signs
  May 09, 2023
• Independence Dividends
  April 12, 2023
• Duploish Marble Runs
  March 26, 2023
• Abusing Snap Circuits IC
  March 05, 2023
• Contract Fraud
  February 28, 2023
• Candyland is Terrible
  February 21, 2023
• House Covid Infection Retrospective
  February 07, 2023
• Teaching Simple Boundaries
  February 05, 2023
• Flying With Covid
  January 18, 2023
• Wolf Incident Postmortem
  January 08, 2023
• Christmas Microscopy
  December 30, 2022
• What's the Alternative to Independence?
  November 13, 2022
• Playground Game: Monster
  November 06, 2022
• Spectrum of Independence
  November 04, 2022
• How Risky Is Trick-or-Treating?
  October 27, 2022
• Rhythmic Baby Toys
  October 19, 2022
• Quick Mock Brownie
  October 14, 2022
• Preparing to Call a Family Dance
  October 07, 2022
• 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
• Making Groups for Kid Pictures
  May 17, 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