Beat some sense into your child

This comes from Magda P., whom I met down in Buenos Aires just days before the entire leadership of her native country was lost in a single plane crash (a terrible tragedy with the worst kind of ironic timing, but still: even Time Inc. allegedly has rules against all of its top brass flying on …

Who Are These “Sitters” of Which You Speak?

As long as we’re all piling on Matt for his extremely casual attitude about temporary childcare, I will (as usual) reveal that I’m the tightass in this debate. Not only have we never left our kid with some random potentially insane/inebriated/berserk stranger; we have never hired a baby-sitter at all. (Unless you count our daily …

How Cool Are French Dads? (Cooler Than You, Anyway.)

Add this to the ever-expanding file of Things I Can’t Possibly Keep Up With: Last night my wife, who’s increasingly fascinated with ultra-hip kids’ clothing, forwarded me a link to this behind-the-scenes video of a “Daddy Cool” fashion shoot at Milk, “le magazine de mode enfantaine”: Shooting Milk – Série Daddy cool Uploaded by milk_magazine. …