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I see that adding kiddo to the extended family Signal chat has had predictable consequences.

Screenshot of a Signal poll asking “What’s better dogs or cats,” with two votes for each option.

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Tonight, I was that parent at the older kids’ science fair, explaining to kiddo that for her poster, we will be generating graphs using high-powered statistical software, which will be overdoing it but make the best ones in her grade.

Picking up a sick(ish?) kiddo from school has me thinking of this decades-old panel from Ultimate Spider-Man.

Liz Allen: “I heard he threw up on your shoes.” Mary Jane Watson: “He didn’t throw up on my shoes.” Liz: “What I heard.” MJ: “Well, he didn’t.” Liz: “The cheerleaders are calling you ‘spew shoes.’”

Is there a technical term for the tension a parent feels between disapproving of what U.S. schools emphasize and how they operate but still being proud of their kid for doing well within that system?

We thought we’d intentionally given kiddo an uncommon name, but the local youth soccer league seems to have recruited all of the other kids with that name, and it’s very confusing for her.

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