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Posts in Family/Life
Jobs to Give Your 6-Month-Old

A few months ago, I made the mistake of looking at some click-baity parenting site about what my kid was supposed to be doing at 3MO, as though reading this crap would somehow elevate my own life by me being able to translate my kid’s skills into my own parenting letter grade, and instead I felt outraged. MY KID SHOULD BE LAUGHING!?

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Gun Violence Revisited

Not much has changed, apart from the increasing anxiety I get when we go somewhere that is heavily populated, especially with a minority community. More shootings. More negligent people with authority. More people believing in the rights of people to have access to semi-automatic rifles, built to ream down humans with precision, than the rights of the people to life, liberty, pursuit of blah blah blah. It is like murdering people in droves is protected under the right to free speech.

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Summer Reading , Television, and Movies: Recommendations From a 5-Year-Old

My intention with today’s post is to share content that Iris enjoys consuming. A time capsule of jpegs with brief notes. Please share your own kid’s lit and video favorites. If your kid’s favorite videos are of people opening eggs on Youtube, I’m so sorry. Unless that’s a thing you love, too, in which case, share it in the comments and do it with gusto(I WONDER WHAT IS INSIDE THIS KINDEREGG!).

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