Spring commute
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A series of images I grabbed on my commute to London last Wednesday - the first day that really, really felt like spring might be here.
Demoted by Starbucks
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Ah, the shame, the shame. Starbucks have demoted me. No more free extra shots for me.
The good news? I managed to go to Starbucks less than once a week last year. With some real effort, I’m sure I can beat that record - and go even less…
Let them play
If we love our children and want them to thrive, we must allow them more time and opportunity to play, not less. Yet policymakers and powerful philanthropists are continuing to push us in the opposite direction — toward more schooling, more testing, more adult direction of children, and less opportunity for free play.
Peter Gray, psychologist, writing for aeon Magazine
Time travel
Right now I want to invent time travel for the sole purpose of finding my pre-fatherhood younger self and slapping him every time he claims to be “very tired”.
Life as a new parent
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Damn you, Coke, for catching the new parent experience so very, very well. It’s the cut between the pre- and post-parenthood living room that does it, I think.
[via CoCreate]