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The Best Family Dinner Is Often Served in Separate Parts For a while, I treated dinner like a small restaurant with one difficult customer per chair. One child wanted pasta but not sauce. Another wanted vegetables only if they had been kep...
The Snack Drawer Has Become a Small Piece of Infrastructure We have a snack drawer now, which sounds like the sort of household decision made by people with matching storage containers. It is not. It is one slightly crooked drawer containi...
Confidence at the School Gate Is Mostly Built at Home Starting school is often described as a big emotional milestone, which is true, but it is also a series of very small logistical problems. Where does the lunchbox go? Can the child open...