Last week, Nathan and I visited the 2010 International Toy Fair to see what kind of crap we’re going to be suckered into buying come Christmas. But we had a surprise—we actually liked a lot of what was on display. So we produced this fine video documenting our adventure. It’s not exactly smoothly edited, and …
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Many of you must know all about the message boards at Urbanbaby.com and YouBeMom.com. Both are sites devoted to mostly upscale urban parenting concerns, and get thousands of posts per day. Urbanbaby is known for endless debates over the particulars of private schooling, furious arguments over dietary choices, and McGwire-size doses of Upper East Side …
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We at Dadwagon are no strangers to trivia, and yet this week we seriously indulged our obsessions with the minor, negligible, insignificant aspects of fatherhood. Perhaps this is because we chose as our Tantrum the not-necessarily-vital question “Is It Wrong to Raise a Geek?” If so, that certainly explains the excitement with which Theodore pounced …
A new study from the Fordham Institute catalogs a school type I hadn’t heard about before: the Private Public School. These are basically public schools that service almost no poor students, and apparently 1.7 million U.S. students attend one of them. This includes a relatively high percentage of kids in the states around New York …
