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James Doyle
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Why would you ever pre-order a games collection when you only know what 1/5 of the games are?

Why would you ever pre-order a games collection when you only know what 1/5 of the games are?

If you just need a gadget to trap a baby while you (attempt to) shower, we use “jumpers”, something like this:

The stripe and solid patterns are also on sale, if gingham is not your thing.

The stripe and solid patterns are also on sale, if gingham is not your thing.

Didn’t these things get banned or something recently because they kept killing babies? Either because they’re choking hazards or constantly sucking on the amber poisoned them? Maybe people are just suing over them.

Yes I do that to my wife constantly. It drives her nuts when I come home and tell her “I heard today that <some cool piece of advice>” and she points out that she literally told me the same thing a week ago. I try to recover by saying it’s always good to have another source...

What I picture when attaching to a lawn chair:

What I picture when attaching to a lawn chair:

In the hospital where my kids were born, skin-to-skin was highly encouraged and my wife pushed hard for it. It was an hour or two before the baby even made it to the incubator unless there was a health reason to do it earlier. That’s where they got their first diaper, a brief wipe-down, and their first real exam.

The golden books are great for toddlers. I also have this book:

This challenges my existing feelings on educational apps, because I tend to prefer the ones with concrete “levels”. Things like Metamorphablet or Endless Reader. Spell a thing, click a button, and when the level has finished you’ve learned something!

For product decisions, I have two words: The Wirecutter.

Most of my notes start off easy to read because I’m paying particular attention to my handwriting. But the longer I’m writing, the worse my handwriting gets as muscle memory kicks in.

This is the overall concept of lifestyle creep distilled to just coffee.

I’m terrified for Minneapolis. That city is not ready for this.

Shout-out to Caribou for a better Starbucks or Kwik Trip (Kwik Star in Iowa) for a better Gas Staion coffee.

Since I’ve utterly failed to do this for my first two kids, now toddlers, how do I convince them that getting face in the water is no big deal? I struggle even explaining how to hold your breath. How do you teach a kid to stop doing the thing they barely even were aware they are doing?

More than once I would notice that if a kid had a really rough night, the next day they would show marked improvements in some physical or mental skill. Seems like their brain was just working too hard at processing and connecting up what it needed to do the next big thing that it prevented sleep.

Play-dough always seemed like a great gift. I fondly remembered playing with Play-dough as a kid.

THE picture already on the fridge. That’s cute. This weekend we just went through his pile of artwork “Hoarders”-style and he had to tell me which ones he wanted to keep forever or throw away.

I doubt you’ll have to wait long for Magic Treehouse. My 4.5 year old is super into them. He seems to follow along pretty well, and the conflicts and suspense of most of the stories aren’t too scary.