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Julia

Parenting, effective altruism, community.

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Review: Girl Scout Handbook 1956

For the last couple of years, I’ve helped run a camping trip with the girl scout troops my older kids are in. One camp gave us a copy of a 1956 Girl Scout handbook. It’s partly an orientation to what scouting is about, partly a list of badg...

9 days ago
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Security theater for child independence

Related: last post on underrated areas of child safety.

Sites like Free Range Kids aim to increase children’s independence, but ironically give the impression that parents are always getting arrested for letting their child walk to a pa...

a month ago
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Underrated areas of child safety

Some areas of child safety are overhyped given how rare they are, like shootings and stranger abduction. This is my overview of some areas I think are worth taking more steps.

  • Car accidents, while in the car

  • Car accidents, while a...

2 months ago
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One-sentence versions of posts I haven't published

I still hope to get some of these out the door, but in the meantime this gets some of the value of these drafts.

  1. Everyone has opinions on education and parenting because everyone went through some version of it, but what we remember i...
3 months ago
12
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One approach to kids' screentime

This isn’t a fully-formed philosophy of screentime, but our approach based on trial and error. Our kids are currently 11, 9, and 4.

Some basics of our approach

  • Lean toward less frantic content; real life doesn’t have fast cuts, and yo...
4 months ago
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