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Subtlety doesn't work with kids.
Rumaan Alam
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Shopping for clothes is time consuming, it's tiring, and it can feel like a waste of an autumn afternoon.
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When my husband and I first became parents, we joked that our chubby baby was destined to grow into an Alex P. Keaton Reaganite - the most unlikely, and therefore hilarious, course for the child of an interracial gay couple in gentrifying Brooklyn.
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Truly smart people and truly smart dressers share one thing in common: They make it look easy.
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Baking is a matter of precision and timing, but I just make things up as I go.
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I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.
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Everyone on Twitter - everyone on the Internet - seems so damn certain. Brevity doesn't allow for nuance, and it's a nice complement to confidence.
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Parenting is love, sure, but it's as much about receiving love as it is giving it. Parenthood is a kind of vanity.
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In a strange way, Louise Erdrich is perhaps our least famous great American writer; she is not reclusive, but she is reticent, and her public appearances give the impression of a carefully controlled performance. But Erdrich has also shared many of her most intimate emotions and experiences, in some form, in her novels.
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Children's picture books are a unique record of social evolution: in gender roles and racial politics, as is much discussed, but also in fashion and interior design.
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When we had our first son, four different people gave us the same present: a copy of Ezra Jack Keats' 'The Snowy Day.' A new child often inspires duplicate gifts - we were given a dozen mostly useless baby blankets, just one more thing to spit up on - but this one was different.
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I don't want the staggeringly wealthy Elton John and his family to represent the standard of gay fatherhood any more than straight people want the stunningly beautiful Angelina Jolie and her family to represent the standard of heterosexual parenthood. Stars are outliers; stars are exceptions.
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