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Darius Tahir

Oh dear! Baby gear! Why are the manuals so unclear?

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)

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.

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