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Michael Sullivan's avatar

Here's a new parent bias: you imagine that your children are more normal than they are.

For example, with neither of my children did I need much in the way of burping rags. There's all kinds of things that you imagine are universal experiences but it turns out are idiosyncratic to your children.

My cousin had a child about the same time as my first child. When our children were both about two, he asked me, "How do you deal with the biting? Any tips?" And my answer was, "Uh, my daughter doesn't bite people." Unspoken -- BECAUSE I'M A GOOD PARENT.

Three years later, when my second child was two, OH, THAT'S WHAT HE MEANT. All this stuff that we thought we had figured out and nailed down with child 1 it turned out no, she was just predisposed to be easy for that.

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Tom B's avatar

"I wake up at 6 PM every evening, have an impossible meat burrito at about 10, cereal at 5, then go to sleep at 8 AM."

So, Scott, you're totally nocturnal!? Is this related to the twins, or do you just like it that way?

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