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Emily Bazelon ponders the ethics of blogging about your kids (see Slate), and gets some advice from Dooce’s Heather Armstrong:

“Armstrong’s approach is a common one among parent-scribes: You caricature your kid a bit, picking out his funny or more outrageous habits, but your parenting struggles are the real subject, and you’re the butt of all the jokes. (And your spouse is the font of all wisdom, on the theory that flattery helps.) You mine your kid for material, but you tell yourself that certain categories of behavior are off-limits.”