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Don MacLeod

22,000 Wake Ups and Counting

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Whatever Happened to Trusting Parents to Parent?

Posted on October 20, 2025October 19, 2025 By Don MacLeod

When I was ten, I had two paper routes. Not one — two. Up before sunrise, folding papers in the garage, rubber bands snapping against my fingers. Then out the door on my bike, hoping the wind wouldn’t tear the Observer in half before it hit the porch. By thirteen,…

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