Turns out I’ve been making this dadhood thing much too complex. It’s just so easy! All you have to do is follow the three instructions laid down by a team of researchers, and everything will go swimmingly: Researchers (M. Lamb, 2004, and others) have developed what they call the “Big Three” elements of effective fatherhood: …
Monthly Archives: April 2010
Babies vs. Fathers: The Movie(s)
While some parents are excitedly anticipating the May 7 release of “Babies: The Movie,” the anthropological look at infants around the world, others of us are a bit more, shall we say, self-involved. We don’t care about babies—we wanna see dads onscreen! Which is why, I suppose, there’s “The Evolution of Dad,” a DVD documentary …
More Better Death Writing
Even casual observers of DadWagon must know that I love me some kids-ponder-death writing. I do it myself as often as the cheerful bastards who co-blog here will allow. This piece from Her Bad Mother is a lovely read. And at the same time depressing because really, none of us parents have good answers for …
Panic in the Streets! Sheer Panic!
Via Gawker comes a tale of pedo-panic in San Francisco: Everyone knows the only thing people do with their cell phones is take weird sex pictures. When moms saw a man lurking around San Francisco’s Mountain Lake Park apparently taking cell phone pics of their kids, they leaped into action. That is, they took pictures …