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A few weeks ago, we brought back our Wins and Woes series. The responses we received were amazing, so I wanted to highlight one of your wins and a woe and provide a space for you to share new ones. Feel free to leave some encouraging words, share your own story, or help celebrate someone else’s win. As I usually say, parenting is wonderful, but it can also be hard.…

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Today’s question is about plastic, but really it’s about panic headlines. We are increasingly awash in new studies, new findings, and new headlines covering them. I love data, as you well know, but if we react to every new piece of evidence, it will drive us crazy and, as the questioner below says, make us think we’re doing it wrong. My antidote to this is to look carefully at what…