Continuing our discussion of small boys with long hair: My opinion is clear but bifurcated. I believe that those Texan folks are nuts for trying to prohibit any hairstyle–and I say this as a man who grew up in New Jersey in the eighties, amid the world’s greatest concentration of mullets and, briefly, something called …
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Wasn’t Obama going to kill all the irony? Well, wasn’t he? We were going to enter an age in which partisanship would end, the elite would inherit the earth, tofu would taste fucking awesome, and no one would ever dare make oblique, self-referential sport of well-known and much-beloved kiddie songs. Yet, unlike that whole public …
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(This is the third in our new series, “The Tantrum,” in which each of our four regulars will address one subject over the course of a week. Read about TV trauma here and ratting out your kid here, and Nathan’s post against long hair for preschool boys here.) Maybe this is just evidence of how distanced we …
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A nifty little rundown of child intransigence at Why Is Daddy Crying got me thinking about why I enjoy hearing about how stubborn other people’s kids are. Of course, I like it because it absolves me of a certain amount of responsibility for my kids’ ill-behavior. Dalia can be a world-class obstructionist, but if other …
