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Feeling better about my approach to fatherhood based upon snippets such as, “The good news is that autonomy-supportive parenting tends to strengthen bonds between child and parent, while controlling practices weaken them.”

Mentioning Hunter S. Thompson at the start sucked me into this book. Tough call as to whether reading about writing is more enjoyable than writing itself.

Mentioning Hunter S. Thompson at the start sucked me into this book. Tough call as to whether reading about writing is more enjoyable than writing itself.

"Roughly speaking, rationalists claim that some knowledge exists prior to any sensory data, and in some cases, theories can be known to be true despite empirical evidence to the contrary. Empiricists claim that knowledge is ultimately based on sensory information we gather about the world, and we must experience the world before we can understand it."

It seems, like the author, I'm in the rationalists camp.

Nominee for an Edgar Award

Another good book on parenting

Learned a lot already and barely made a dent. Overcoming my public school teaching takes effort

Learned a lot already and barely made a dent. Overcoming my public school teaching takes effort

A quite talented and underrated author

Pages 84-88 were so well written

Starting another mystery in the hope of getting some reading momentum going

Slow slog

Getting better. "Season's Greetings" was pretty good

Hoping it gets better but thinking that's unlikely

Chapter IV is my fave thus far

Quite funny

Helpful, very helpful, thus far