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39. The Economist’s Guide to Parenting

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Skiing Is Scary

Melissa carney from the university of maryland. She never used to be a scarety cat, then she became a pparent and got swept up in the fear parade. When i'm sitting on the chair left with my kids when i could barely breathe, i'm so scared them falling off. Then she takes a deep breath and reminds herself that human beings are terrible risk assessors in general, and no one worse than a man. But try and remember that everything has trade offs, and am the chances are nothing's going to happen.

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