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				Re: Underparenting with Tom Socca
			 
 
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					Originally Posted by Sparklehorse  In case you have been too busy with your spawn to read The Awl, I commend to you Tom Socca's column called Underparenting:Link  to all of his articles, including Underparenting.
 
A small excerpt: |  I never heard of the column but thanks for the link. Hilarious:
 
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		| People on the subway would give up their seats at the first sight of the Bjorn, at least on the 7 train. (On the Beijing subway, they did not.) It's nice but confusing, if you're an able-bodied and not-yet-old man, to receive that particular courtesy. Is having a baby strapped to your chest a disability? Or is the baby the disabled person? Or is it just a cumbersome piece of luggage? I wasn't sure about my own answers to these questions, but it was good to be able to sit, even though it meant that the never-properly-positioned straps of the Bjorn would ride up into some new, even less ergonomically correct, position. | 
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