I would like all two of you readers out there in Dadwagon land to consider the image here and ask yourself: Are your little ones actually angels or the cross-eyed smoking/drinking fallen-angel types? I do not intend to pass judgment on your sweet punk(in), but in case you’re not sure, I would like to leave …
Monthly Archives: February 2010
A Safer Hot Dog: Designs for DadWagon by Jon-Paul Villegas
We here at DadWagon were worried sick when we heard that 17 percent of food-chokings are caused by hot dogs — sending 10,000 kids under the age of 14 to the emergency room each year. After all, we are New Yorkers. Hot dogs are our national dish. So we called upon the skills of another transplanted New …
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Babies: the Movie
From a new Dad Blog called Band of Fathers, which I heard about from my “real world” friend and colleague Charlotte G., comes a debate about a movie called, simply enough, Babies. They pose a reasonable question: would dudes go see this? Or (in my words) is this just meant to be a lushly filmed …
In Defense of Trading Kids for Cockatoos
This disturbing (and yet somehow believable) crime story from Louisiana reopens an age-old debate. What’s worth more: two kids or a cockatoo? Yes, the child trader in the story swapped two kids (a girl, 4, and a boy, 5) for a cockatoo. But the bird wasn’t quite an equal trade, so she asked the couple …