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Fellow DadWagoner Matt, whose parenting style I apparently criticized this weekend, had a good point about an unrelated topic: If I’m going to go around the Internet saying I love the book Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), then I might as well actually read it. Fortunately, he had a galley copy.
Reading more than the [...]

So we here in the Valley of Flowers are looking to break in a new babysitter. Don’t know why it reminds me of mutton-bustin’, except that the bustin’ of muttons remains one of my favorite sports, and you’ll miss this year’s Tobacco Valley Rodeo only if you’re a fool.
But while babysitters may not be as [...]

Came across this horrific story at (the normally silly and unreadable) Babble today about a 2-year-old girl who goes into potentially lethal seizures every time she cries.
The girl has something called Reflex Anoxic Seizure, a syndrome that impacts about 8 children out of every 1,000, according to an extraordinarily unreliable Web search I just did.
How [...]