Good Parenting and its Most Surprising Adversary, a guest post by Brittney Morris

Good Parenting and its Most Surprising Adversary, a guest post by Brittney Morris

When my son was 15 months old, he had exactly one phrase that he would say. “Dat dut.”To anyone on the street, he was talking nonsense, but I knew he was either saying ‘da-da,’ ‘trash truck,’ or ‘turtle.’ I knew his inflections and responses to context clues so well that I could decipher his toddler babble with elite accuracy.I could name every food he’d ever tasted (and the likelihood of each one getting scarfed or hurled at the wall). Every de…