On parenting and bicycle helmets.

How often does the phrase, “When we were kids, we used to be able to …” come up in conversations with your friends about parenting? In our family, we recall with fondness such now-illegal activities as sleeping on the floor in the back of a family van, riding in the bed of our neighbor’s flatbed truck, and – especially memorable to me – sitting in the middle front seat of my grandmother’s Oldsmobile as we ran errands together. Two...

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