The American public, and especially its elected representatives, continue to have a bias against city life. Our politicians consistently talk about Middle American values, privileging Main Street over any other street, and (in the case of certain vice-presidential candidates) the way in which our small towns grow good people. (Never mind who she was quoting, …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
The Tantrum Poll: Long Hair on Young Boys?
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The Tantrum: Don’t Muss With Texas, Part 4
Yes, of course I know that gender stereotyping in young people is bad for their development. I’m a sensitive, progressive, up on the new trends in parenting kind of guy. Thus it pains me that when JP was pushing a year, I was adamantly opposed to keeping his hair long. My issue with it was …
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Just give.
It’s been a little hard to think about much else these past two days besides the cloud of concrete dust and misery that has befallen Haiti. But this is a Dad blog, not a disaster blog (except when it is). So what lessons are there here for parents? The Motherlode, always a first responder of sorts, …