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The Truth About Screen Time, Tech, and Young People →

January 8, 2019 • #

A good piece with some sane thinking on the effects of screen time for kids:

“We are fed a steady diet from the press that screens are bad for kids – if you show people enough of those terrible articles based on terrible research, a proportion of people will have a terrible idea about screens,” says Andrew Przybylski, associate professor in the department of psychology at the University of Oxford and director of research at the Oxford Internet Institute.

The way schools want to penetrate so deeply into in-the-home education is baffling to...

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Nine Months

April 15, 2016 • #

I haven’t written anything yet about becoming a dad. Let this be the first post of (hopefully) many chronicling the experience.

My daughter Elyse was born in July of 2015. She’s nine months old now, and doing fantastic. But this post isn’t really about what’s happened with her so far, that’s for my private journal. This is about my personal experiences so far with fatherhood.

When we decided to try for a baby I was excited, as excited as you can be when you have no idea what’s in front of you. I’m now a firm believer that no first-time...

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