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Roman Boed

This past week in parenting you found out what could have compelled Steph Curry to throw his mouth guard, and it was all of Twitter clowning on his dad shoes. Elsewhere, you learned that you should spend any extra time you have on caring for the kid, because science confirms that’s the leading cause of getting laid. But if your kid might be kind of a jerk about it, it might be your Amazon Echo’s fault. Maybe if your kid exercised more while they were at school, they’d be a little more chill to everyone — even the machines. All this and more, because parenting news travels fast (like your toddler).

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