In Nathan’s “I heart New York” post , our friend Tim comments: don’t forget the brilliance that is David Weinstone and his NY-based “Music for Aardvarks and Other Mammals” empire. Best children’s music anywhere, except maybe that CD of Guns n’ Roses lullabies. Which reminds me—we have some bad, bad music playing around our house. …
Monthly Archives: December 2009
You’re Not Going to Wear That, Are You?
Spent some weekend time shopping for holiday gifts, and yet again, I have been struck by the spectacular awfulness of most baby clothes. Who decided that the gender-specific appliqué is the only appropriate way to decorate a tiny outfit? Walk through the boys’ racks, and all you see are little footballs, hockey sticks, puppies, and …
All Unhappy Families Are Unhappy in Different Ways. But This One’s Mostly Just Annoying.
Yesterday’s New York Times Magazine cover story was the sort of thing that inspires a lot of eye-rolling. Elizabeth Weil’s story was ostensibly about attempting to submit a decent marriage to counseling and therapy, to see if things might improve. What readers got instead was a shapeless noodle of a story that felt like a …
Attention, Stupid Parents: You Are Stupid
On Salon.com, Aaron Traister writes about a serious problem we face as fathers—stupidity: I don’t know if parenting makes you chronically stupid or just temporarily slow, but after nearly four years of child rearing, most of them spent as a stay-at-home dad, my intellect has been dulled to a nub. Now, I don’t know if …
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