Came across this horrific story at (the normally silly and unreadable) Babble today about a 2-year-old girl who goes into potentially lethal seizures every time she cries. The girl has something called Reflex Anoxic Seizure, a syndrome that impacts about 8 children out of every 1,000, according to an extraordinarily unreliable Web search I just …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Fingertip Amputation & Other Parenting Hazards
The first rule of hipsterdom is this: Thou shalt ridicule other hipsters for doing that which you yourself do. But does this apply to hipster parents? As best I can tell, yes. At least, this explains my reaction to the news that Maclaren is recalling 1 million strollers because their opening mechanism could, if sprung …
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The Horror, the Horror: The Prequel
Two years ago, on the coldest day of the year, at 4:30 a.m., I could be found standing in line in the dark in Brooklyn, shivering, too cold even to drink coffee. J.P. was 2, and it was time to enroll him in a local preschool/daycare. Now, to say “enroll” makes the process seem in …
Enter Sandmann
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I’m here in Germany visiting as many new German babies as I can. I lived in Eastern Germany after reunification, and all my German friends are in the middle of a late baby boom — just like my friends back home. One thing that …