Giving Nico his flu shots was easy. It was like Basketball Diaries. Dude practically chased the needle. Dalia was not so easy. She’s almost four. She knows to anticipate pain. So her good mood yesterday afternoon, which came in part because she was excited to take a trip with her dad (taxicab!), ended with an …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Daycare = TV Time
Seattle has given the world so much, from orca sex to Rainier Beer: the beer from here. But did you know there are a lot of doctors out there? And that one of them studies daycare? Here’s Dr. Dimitri A. Christakis at Seattle Children’s Research Institute, commenting on his dismal finding, in December’s issue of …
Bye-bye, Baby! (Again.)
At 5:30 a.m. this morning, I dragged my suitcase down to the ground floor of my in-laws’ home in Taipei and hailed a taxi to the airport. Trailing me were my wife, Jean, and daughter, Sasha, and as the cab driver loaded my bags into the trunk, I kissed them good-bye in a ritual that …
No, Seriously, Dirt Is Good
Just a quick follow-up on my previous post on the virtues of messiness: science agrees with me! Not that I had any doubt, but according to researchers at UC San Diego, letting children play with messy stuff is actually good for their skin. Thank you, wise scientists, for confirming what I already knew: my ex-wife …