Apologies in advance to all those uninterested in the spectacle of a daddyblogger (wonderful term, that–anyone got a better one?) blogging about daddyblogging. One of my principal conflicts when it comes to participating in this blog is determining how much of my private life to reveal. Plain truth is that I’m going through a divorce, …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
Google Ignores Fathers, Enslaves Mothers
I shouldn’t be surprised to find that there’s a forum to discuss Google and its competitors, and today discovered Search Engine Roundtable. One of its members here discusses the following Google quirk, initially reported in a Google forum: I just typed in “slavery and fatherhood” in Google, looking for a book of that name. On …
More Dangerous Things
Fellow DadWagoner Matt, whose parenting style I apparently criticized this weekend, had a good point about an unrelated topic: If I’m going to go around the Internet saying I love the book Fifty Dangerous Things (You Should Let Your Children Do), then I might as well actually read it. Fortunately, he had a galley copy. Reading more than …
The Second-Best Parenting Blog I Know
Just want to point readers in the direction of Accidents Will Happen, a mommyblog by a Midwestern grad student who is witty and wry, and won me over for life by using the phrase “cultural zoning” and quoting Milton Waddams in the same headline. (Also, her son turns out to have been born exactly the …