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This is how a book is born.

I sat down with my 8-year old and read a bad kids’ book. “We can do better than this,” I said. We haven’t looked back since.

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It’s a 3-day wedding in a castle. The nanny cancelled. “Our boys can handle themselves, right?”

“Wait,” Dec interrupted and almost choked on his crumpet in his excitement, “You want us to do what?”

If you instill confidence and responsibility in your kids, they’ll rise to the occasion. Right? that’s what it says in the parenting books. This is no parenting book. In fact, this just might be the manual for the un-parenting book.

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Fiction books don’t usually have bullet points. You just lucked out.

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9-year old references no adult could possibly understand (or want to).