From the Brooklyn Heights Blog (and just about everywhere else): I was in the Montague St Starbucks at 10:20 am today, maybe 10:25. A man outside had a baby in an upright-type stroller and was speaking with a woman who seemed very concerned. It seems that his child was fussing in the stroller while the …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
Slagging the Parent Coaching Industry
We here at DadWagon are all for better, more thoughtful parenting (except when we’re sorta not), but let me just say that there seems to be a lot of private Parent Coaching out there, and some of it sure looks like bullshit to me. Let’s see what one prominent parent-coach factory, the Seattle-based Parent Coaching Institute, has to …
Dumb Public School Kids Still Dumb
The results of Lord Mayor Bloomberg’s grand experiment in forced mathematical learning have arrived, and the results are shocking: Apparently if you require public school teachers to use testing as the one and only metric for learning in New York City, if you stake your political credibility on getting those scores up, if you even …
OMG! Dads R Ppl 2!
Holy shit! I mean: Ho-lee shee-it! According to some doctors, it turns out that possibly 4 percent of new dads suffer from “clinically significant depressive symptoms within eight weeks of the birth of their children.” Just like their wives! (Only less so.) Apparently, some combination of starry-eyed enthusiasm, lack of sleep, and financial burdens is …