You know, I guess it’s too much to expect that a guy who left his wife and seven kids might participate in raising the eighth that he’s just fathered with his young Russian-model girlfriend. Even if he’s a movie star. Even if he’s an exceedingly paleo-Catholic (yet divorced), evidently megalomaniacal, plausibly anti-Semitic, apparently out-of-his-mind movie …
Monthly Archives: January 2010
Bad Dads We Love: J.D. Salinger
Now, I’m not the world’s greatest expert on the works of J.D. Salinger. I’m probably the only guy who read “The Catcher in the Rye” only once (it seems you either never read it—or read it 40 times), and the descriptions I saw of his insufferable Glass family just about guaranteed I’d never pick up …
TMI, Mom!
Attention all masochists! Please check out this post at Babble explaining why mothers must break the bad news about sex to their children. Here’s the setup: On a car trip a couple years ago, my six-year-old son, Eli, asked randomly, between bites of his granola bar, “How do babies get here?” I looked over at …
From Childbirth to Mild Mirth
It’s pretty easy to get worked up about the whole natural vs. drug-addledaided childbirth debate—or so I heard recently somewhere. But it’s also a subject that makes for potent video humor. Up first is a familiar question: “Are Birth Classes Worth It for Dads?,” from the brilliant, highly professional dudes at DadLabs.com. (And I’m not …