Instructions for a fingernail filing gadget for infants says, “Stay away from children.” It’s enough to make a new parent holler. Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty Images
Thanasis Zovoilis/Getty Images
Since becoming a father a few months ago, I’ve been nursing a grudge against something tiny, seemingly inconsequential, and often discarded: instructional manuals.
Parenthood requires a lot of gadgetry to maintain a kid’s health and welfare. Those gadgets require puzzling over booklets, decoding inscrutable pictographs, and wondering whether warnings can be safely ignored or are actually disclosing a hazard.
To give an example,
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