A very strange thing started happening once we sent Dalia to preschool for the first time last fall: she made friends. With the cool kids. This is somewhat unprecedented. My family hasn’t had a serious brush with coolness since some long-ago relative was (allegedly) something of a mob lawyer in 1930’s Chicago. And even then, …
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This conversation between Gail Collins and David Brooks hits on so many vital DadWagon issues—stay-at-home dads, marrying women who make more money than you, expressing emotions—but clearly one topic, brought up by Mr. Brooks, is the most important. Of course, I’m talking about armpits: Scientists took a bunch of research subjects and taped pads to their …
Must admit, of the four Dadwagoneers on this site, I’m most likely the least committed daddy-shopper. Now, I’m not entirely unaffected by the rigorous ministrations of the ad-monkeys running this planet. I, like everyone else, am deeply moved at the sight of a girl doll with a “willie na na” (a technical term); and who …
When I was a little boy, I used to brag to my grandmother that I had bionic eyes—and could see her from my parents’ home the next state over. Back in the late 1970s and early ’80s, bionics were big and cool and hip, apparently because of some TV show (which I never saw but …
