It’s hard for me to believe that in the two short months of Dadwagon’s existence, I haven’t once written about my nanny situation. Or nannies situation(s). But current events have prompted this post. To whit: • At 13 months, Sasha speaks Chinese. Or, really, understands Chinese. Tell her to “pai-pai shou” and she’ll clap (pai) …
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When the New York Times’ “Motherlode” blog asks a question like “Why Does Anyone Have Children?,” it’s very tempting to snark the fuck out of it, especially when the questioner, a reader named Baily, is so earnest: I understand the evolutionary pull (and necessity) of procreation, I get that some-to-most women have ‘the urge,’ but …
Came across this amusing bit on cursing written by a friend of ours at Dadlabs with tips on how to avoid cursing in front of your child: “Put the kids to bed at 4:30. This really cuts down the amount of swearing that they hear. Do no not open product packaging around the kids, especially …
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If you look at the far left pink spot of this infographic from the San Jose Mercury News, you’ll see confirmation of what I had always suspected: I went to middle school in an Autism Cluster. Of course, this was in the benighted ’80s, when there was no autism, only retardation and hyperactivity. But still, …
