Miranda and Sarah discuss Oliver Burkeman's book, Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals, and their own struggles with attention, loss, and letting go.

Links:

Olver Burkeman’s Four Thousand Weeks

Allison P Davis on friends with kids

Why I Don’t Feel Guilty for Not Playing with My Kids

Sarah’s parenting column, Good Enough Parent

Alison Gopnik What do Babies Think?

Judith Viorst’s Necessary Losses 

The Happiness Project

Kid-culture Recs:

Harriet the Spy

Mac B Kid Spy

Project Runway Jr

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