TOPIC: Programming Your Kid's Danger Room.

This week, Dan and Merlin discuss the parenthood racket: the advice and expectations, the doubt and the fear, the assessment, the concentric circles, the snow cones.

Parenting means programming a Danger Room that teaches you and the kid to handle the hovering, the hitting, the losing, and the play structure.

Links for this episode:

• Shmuel - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• The name is Bond. | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• At the playground (ya know?)
  
• Hippie | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• The Author at Work | Flickr - Photo Sharing!
  
• [SPONSOR] iOS Engineering - Mutual Mobile
  
• [SPONSOR] Build a Website - Squarespace 6
  
• [SPONSOR] Stock Photos and Royalty-Free Images by Subscription - Shutterstock
  
• [SPONSOR] Hover - domain name and email management made simple
  
• Ep. 51: "In Pursuit of an Errant Leaf" - Roderick on the Line - Merlin Mann
  
• Twitter / danbenjamin: GF dining in NYC at L'Asso ...
  
• Hop 'n Play Kids Indoor Playground in Tanforan Shopping Center (San Bruno, CA)
  
• "The Shining" - Production Script
  
• 5by5 | Build and Analyze #99: The Podcast
  
• 5by5 | Hypercritical #89: Lazy Sunday
  
• Danger Room - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Danger Room - Marvel Universe Wiki: The definitive online source for Marvel super hero bios.
  
• x-men "danger room" - Google Image Search
  
• Fiddler on the Roof - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  
• Glengarry Glen Ross speech - YouTube
  

This week's episode of Back to Work is kindly sponsored by Hover, Mutual Mobile, Shutterstock, and Squarespace.