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This parenting stuff is easy

By Matthew Dicks | March 17, 2011

My daughter is now two years and two months old. I have yet to install a car seat in my car, nor have we ever moved the car seat from my wife’s car to mine.…

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Undies in the mail

By Matthew Dicks | March 16, 2011

I’ve been working on a blog post dealing with productivity and efficiency for the past several days, but it has grown so long that it might make a better book. Sort of a side project.…

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Exclamation points say so much about a person

By Matthew Dicks | March 16, 2011

Cut out all those exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes. —F. Scott Fitzgerald This is a hard lesson to teach to ten-year old writers, who seem to want to…

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Broken baby

By Matthew Dicks | March 15, 2011

I was playing with my daughter on Sunday, and I think I broke her. While flying her around the kitchen, she landed funny on her leg and began crying. While she didn’t cry for very…

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My wife will just about anything to expand my daughter’s palate

By Matthew Dicks | March 15, 2011

For a man who despises broccoli, this whole incident was downright frightening. Cooler heads finally prevailed:

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Her first haircut will be a doozy

By Matthew Dicks | March 15, 2011

This page from Dr. Seuss’s ABC Amazing Alphabet Book scared the hell out of my daughter. She stared at the baby in the barber’s chair, with the enormous pair of scissors suspended over his head,…

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Gucci what?

By Matthew Dicks | March 14, 2011

My brother-in-law owned this pair of Gucci sneakers, which, as far as I can tell, retail for about $500. I was hoping to tease him about the sneakers for the next eighteen months or so,…

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Should decisions made twenty years ago impact employment today? I’m undecided.

By Matthew Dicks | March 14, 2011

I’m torn. I want to support this teacher and her right to teach. I believe in giving people a second chance. I believe that decisions made twenty years ago rarely reflect the people we are…

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Anti-dragon sentiment has dissipated considerably

By Matthew Dicks | March 13, 2011

Either my daughter’s opinion of dragons have changed since I last posted about them or what I thought was a threatening ring of little people around the dragon was actually some type of communal hug. …

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Our mathematical genius

By Matthew Dicks | March 12, 2011

How many two year olds do you know who request an abacus?

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