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Playing Catch-UpMy son is better than me at baseball—the discomfort of parental envy.

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Emily Bazelon is a Slate senior editor and an editor of DoubleX.
Illustration by Robert Neubecker.
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Don't feel too bad about those barehanded catches, Emily.

Baseball players field with gloves because it's a lot easier to do and a lot less likely to result in injury than barehanding. Major league players make barehanded catches only when absolutely necessary in order to save a close play, and pulling one off frequently lands them on an ESPN highlight reel. So the fact that you could barehand your son's throws without too much trouble suggests that he's got a ways to go before he really outstrips you in baseball.

Can't help you with the Scrabble, though.

-- MplsKid
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I read recently that most of the villainesses in the original folktales/fairytales were actually the biological mothers of the heroines - the Grimms changed them to stepmothers in their books in order to uphold the sanctity of motherhood, apparently.

Scary thought, that you might be jealous enough of your own daughter to make her eat poison.

-- Tinyredcar
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