Clearly, DadWagon’s influence is being felt far beyond our humble little corner of the Internet, for Details magazine has taken on a topic clearly derived from this week’s geek-rearing Tantrum: “Are You Raising a Douchebag?” The piece includes warning signs such as Junior remarking “that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was ‘unbelievably lame’ or that ‘it’s weird that Brandon’s family flies first-class and we don’t,’ or maybe it’s simply that ‘these taquitos taste like turd.’
It’s then that you must reckon with the real possibility that your drive to make little Johnny better, smarter, and hipper has merely turned him into a douchebag. Put it this way: If it’s your child, not you, who gets to choose your weekend brunch spot, or if he’s the one asking how the branzino is prepared, it’s probably time to take a hard look at your own behavior.
Nathan, I think you—more than the rest of us—might want to look seriously at this article, at least before Nico starts complaining that Serafina’s a shithole and Barney Greengrass smells like old people. Cuz by then, it’ll be too late.