“Tippy, our little one is going to be here soon. I know this all feels extreme, but you and I are getting ready to be in charge of a life. We have to protect this child from dust mites and bedbugs. From illiteracy and attention disorders. All before kindergarten. And those are just the tangibles. What about the intangibles? What about our child’s spirituality and his or her life philosophy? We really need to plant deep-seated ambitions early on, like at six months, or our kid is going to be one of those people who deliver pizza well into their forties. You don’t want that, do you?” “It’d mean
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