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Do Parents Pass on Our Neuroses to Our Kids?
It’s one of the most startling, and at times most delightful, biological gifts of parenthood: when you unexpectedly see yourself, or your beloved, or Grandma Ellie, reflected in your own child. Maybe it’s a talent for taking apart a car engine, the ability to dunk a basketball, the resurgence of one of your mother’s mannerisms…
Changing a Lane Could Change a Life; Proceed with Caution
A usual trip to my daughters karate dojo last night. We’re on the highway, all is well. I see something move out of the corner of my eye and I realize it’s the car in the lane to the left of me now coming into my lane. The front of her vehicle is no more than two feet ahead of mine and it comes to my attention that I’m going to have to react fast. This wasn’t going to be one of those, “I’m getting over, oops I just saw your car, and better get back into my lane” ordeals.