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One of the strange things about parenting is it recasts your own childhood in a new light. You see your parent’s actions anew & get to make choices for your own child that reinforce or reject them. But choosing differently casts an implicit judgment upon the grandparents —— some

I don’t know what the answer is. But. We went to a tour a K-12 school in Maine this year for our boy. There are weed farms & dispensaries on the same road. There are GIANT color billboards for weed all along it. My son will be fine. Probably. But I don’t want this. Greatly.

Without High Growth, people start playing Zero Sum games real quick. Depending on personal preference, these games can involve conflict across Generation, Class, Immigration Status, State Residency, Identity, and so on. Everyone has a wealth transfer they hate!

Note for the audience that “stay calm” does not mean exude an aura of Stepford sanguinity, blissfully uptalking your way past your child as if buried in dissociative meds. You can be calm & happy. Calm & firm. Calm & disappointed. It’s important for your kid to see the deltas.

in meetings all afternoon bathroom trip, check phone see wife asked me how to change riding mode on 3yo's dirt bike -- and then later how to charge his battery see "solved it, he walked me through whole process" feel swell of pride, send a thumbs up