The One Parenting Decision That Really Matters - The Atlantic
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Almost none of the choices you make are as fraught as you think they are.
This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic , Monday through Friday. Sign up for it here. A recent study calculated that in the first year of a baby’s life, parents face 1,750 difficult decisions. These include what to name the baby, whether to breastfeed the baby, how to sleep-train the baby, what pediatrician to take the baby to, and whether to post pictures of the baby on social media. And that is only year one. How can parents make these decisions, and the thousands to come? They can always turn to G
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