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Read more about the article My wife’s only parenting blunder involves the potentially hazardous use of scissors.

My wife’s only parenting blunder involves the potentially hazardous use of scissors.

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:February 21, 2013
  • Post category:Critic/Family/Words
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My wife is quite nearly a perfect mother. She worries a little more than is necessary, but this appears to be a prerequisite to mothering, and her car is littered…

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Read more about the article Three unjust presumptions

Three unjust presumptions

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 23, 2012
  • Post category:Critic
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1. The cold person’s temperature preference always trumps the warm person’s temperature preference. 2. The parent who argues for greater frequency in the bathing of a child assumes unjust moral…

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Read more about the article Universal acts of parental stupidity

Universal acts of parental stupidity

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 11, 2012
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TIME magazine asks: Does This Baby Bikini Onesie Go too Far? Of course it does. While I believe that there are many acceptable ways of parenting (and one best way),…

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Read more about the article From lunacy to reason in just three days

From lunacy to reason in just three days

  • Post author:Matthew Dicks
  • Post published:July 6, 2012
  • Post category:Autobiography/Family
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On Saturday we were back at the emergency room with our daughter after a less-than-pleasant ambulance ride two days before. The dreaded hives had reappeared, and unaware that this was…

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