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#boundaries

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Legibility at the boundary

This morning, the slowly-moving car crash that is my method of thinking things through served up an idea related to a previous note about consequences and boundaries.

Essentially, when we're talking about boundaries we're talking about legibility which is an important component of literacy. Literate practices involve encoding and decoding texts, and sit within an existing power dynamic. There are many forms of literate practices, which as I will keep repeating until I'm blue in the face, are dependent upon literate communities.

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Parenting adult children

Parenting is hard: you always feel like you're making mistakes, and looking back you always think that you could have done better. That's particularly true with my son, currently 19, who will be moving back in with us for next academic year.

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