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Seth Christensen, barely 3, doesn't need to look far for mom or dad when he wants something. Kristan Warnick and her husband, Blair Christensen, both therapists, have arranged their work schedules so one of them is nearly always with their only child.
If there's a worry, it's that he might get too much of them and not enough of other people, especially children. So they schedule play dates with neighborhood kids and young relatives, the dual purpose both to make sure he'll fit well in a larger world and he'll know he's not the center of the universe, said Warnick, 45.
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