Progress and its critics
leisure, work, parenting, limits
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It was with not a small amount of despair that I stood in the bland center of the Charlottesville Bounce House a weekend or so ago as a maelstrom of toddlers screamed, giggled, and whined their way up large, snot-covered blow-up slides and, once at the top, launched themselves either fearfully or giddily down the chutes. As my son practiced sliding bell…