(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) This is, my beautiful colleagues, an ill-formed question. Mainly because of the wording–“fancy restaurant” implies a very specific dining experience: hushed, candlelit, and deeply inappropriate for a babbling, burbling baby. But the truth …
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Our friend at the superfine blog Pacing the Panic Room finally got that shot of the baby teeth, and in passing, referred to the “adorable things” at My Milk Toof. I have a policy of clicking on any link that promises cute and/or creepy content, so I went. Turns out that Milk Toof offers both: it’s …
Sometimes you have to wonder what the fine folk who run New York City are thinking. The Times ran this piece yesterday about a playground in a housing project in Bedford-Stuyvesant, for many years one of the city’s poorest neighborhoods and still an area with more than its share of violent crime. The playground has …
(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) Are you out of your mind? Of course not. The social contract holds that a first-rate dinner should not be spoiled by many things, and intrusive behavior from a nearby high chair is …
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