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'Diary of a Wimpy Kid' author Jeff Kinney shares his parenting advice — and what he'd do differently. This as-told-to essay is based on a conversation with Jeff Kinney, the 55-year-old author of the "Diary of a Wimpy Kid" series, who lives in Plainville, Massachusetts. It has been edited for length and clarity. When I wrote "Diary of a Wimpy Kid," I worked on it for eight or nine years without thinking I was writing a book for kids. I thought I was writing a book for grown-ups that would feel like "The Wonder Years" or "A Christmas Story" — looking back on childhood through the lens of an adult. The first thing that surprised me was that my publisher said I'd actually written a children's series; it caused a lot of cognitive dissonance. But what also surprised me was that kids understood the irony in the books. They understand that Greg is an unreliable narrator; they seem to get the joke. After writing the series, and after raising two kids of my own — ages 21 and 23 — I've learned a few things about kids. Here's my best advice about getting kids to read, screen time, and more — plus a few things I'd go back and change if I could.1.

When Ikea launched its super-cheap $10 Bluetooth Kallsup speakers in April, aside from the rock-bottom price and bright, white/green/pink colors, the claim that really caught WIRED’s ear was that the Swedish furniture brand said it was possible to chain 100 of these 2.75-inch sonic cubes together, should you so wish. Now, because it’s highly unlikely any one household will ever own more than a handful of mini Bluetooth speakers, this is one of those consumer-tech statements that rarely gets tested. So we asked the good folks at Älmhult in Ikea headquarters if they’d let us do just this. To our surprise, Ikea not only agreed, but it also upped the ante, saying it might be possible to link up to 150 without breaking the connection, so that’s exactly how many it sent us. “No one has ever tried this, though,” an Ikea spokesperson said. “We haven’t.”That is how we ended up building a literal wall of sound at our London office, stacking 150 Kallsups carefully on top of one another to test how many would chain-play from a smartphone.

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