Here’s the way I see sleep training: Nothing works, and it’s evil. Here’s the way I see sleep training: It works, and it’s evil not to train your child to sleep. Here’s the way I see sleep training: I need sleep, and it’s evil for my child not to let it happen. See where I’m …
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Last night over dinner with an old friend, I found myself explaining, for the nth time, our childcare situation: We have two nannies, one who works three days a week and is awesome, and another who works two days a week and is pretty good. There’s one problem with both of them, however. Together, they …
Just returned from a midweek visit to stay with old friends and their toddler up in the stormy, lovely hamlet of Pt. Reyes Station, California. They are in a mixed marriage. He “grew up redneck,” as he put it, in Southwest Virginny. She’s from the heart of San Francisco, and even went to the Waldorf school, …
From this week’s New Yorker, a funny one: Congratulations! The application on behalf of your child for a place in the pre-kindergarten class for the 2012-13 academic year at The School has been rejected. This permits you to begin the Type-A Parent Appeal Process. We think of it as just the kind of challenge that …
