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    <name>Chirag Singhal</name>
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    <title>Family routines that actually reduce the chaos</title>
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    <summary>You do not need a color-coded wall planner. You need three or four predictable anchors in the day, and permission to let the rest be loose.</summary>
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    <title>How to read to a toddler who will not sit still</title>
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    <summary>Reading to a toddler is not story hour at the library. It is a messy, interrupted, joyful thing, and the interruptions are the point.</summary>
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    <title>Screen time without the guilt</title>
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    <summary>A calmer way to think about kids and screens: swap the ticking clock for a few simple rules about what, when, and with whom.</summary>
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