It’s bad enough that the old-media conglomerates that pay us Dadwagoneers are struggling to make it through 2009, but now Gawker warns us that a half-dozen rugrats are angling for our positions—and will probably get them. To these kids, I say: Fine, take over. But enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won’t be long …
Monthly Archives: November 2009
Hungry, Food-blogging Super-Mommies
What am I, chopped liver? This story in the LA Times certainly makes it seem that way.
Pointy-Headed Kids and the End of Play
Interesting/disturbing numbers taken from a report by the Alliance for Childhood (did they spend much time coming up with that name?) called “Crisis in the Kindergarten: a new report on the disappearance of play”: Minutes of standardized test prep, on average, that New York and Los Angeles kindergartners undergo each day: 24 Minutes of unstructured …
Better Living Through Embarrassment
Our little guy is just at the point (8 months old) where he is about to start picking up sociobehavioral cues, and my wife and I are mortified at what he’s going to see. Yes, we think of ourselves as fairly upstanding urban citizens. We live within our means, we don’t let the bathrooms get …