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Monthly Archives: February 2010
The Tantrum: Is It Wrong to Raise a Geek? Part 4
Yes—and, of course, no. I’ll start with no. In school, I was, in all honesty, not really a geek. I was president of the school my senior year, captain of the soccer team, lead in the play, and while I wasn’t necessarily a sex-god, I did have a date to the prom, she was gorgeous, …
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Tantrumesque: If Not a Geek, Then a Douchebag?
Clearly, DadWagon’s influence is being felt far beyond our humble little corner of the Internet, for Details magazine has taken on a topic clearly derived from this week’s geek-rearing Tantrum: “Are You Raising a Douchebag?” The piece includes warning signs such as Junior remarking “that his friend Jake’s eighth-birthday party was ‘unbelievably lame’ or that …
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Taking it to the next level
Via Annie at PhD in Parenting, the studious Canadian momblogger, we came to know this article about how the next UK election is shaping up as the Mumsnet election. That is, the women of Mumsnet, the leading momblog in the UK, will be the next soccer moms or values voters or teabaggers or whatever the “it” …