Reading Nathan‘s and Theodore‘s accounts of trying to get their kids into public pre-K programs is, frankly, terrifying. Who spends $28,000 on preschool? But for me it’s also abstract—my Sasha’s only just over a year old, so my encounter with this nightmare is at least, what, six months off? Right now we’re just trying to …
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From our friends at Dad-Blogs.com, a heads-up that Dr. Laura Schlessinger has said something achingly stupid and anachronistic. It wouldn’t be the first time. “Doctor” Laura (not an M.D., but a Ph.D, in rat physiology, no less) has made a career out of pseudo-scientific renderings of what is essentially a worldview stolen from outdated romance …
We’re don’t do much kid-dialog here at DadWagon (we prefer to leave that sort of thing to Sweet Juniper, who has a fine eye for the detail of juvenile repartee). But here it is anyhow: Yesterday evening, when Nico, who’s almost 2, was being put to bed, Dalia got serious, in the way that 4-year-olds do. She …
Despite vast differences in intellectual heft (he wins) and hairline (I win), DadWagoner Theodore and I do have something in common: we are both caught in the maw of the New York public school “universal” pre-K bureaucracy. Theodore complained righteously about the lack of available spaces, but it’s even worse than he wrote, because you’re …
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