The Tantrum: Should you put your kids’ photos on the Internet, Part IV

(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) I suppose the answer is … probably not, but who knows? Which isn’t really an answer and shouldn’t be read as such, but really as a jumping off point. In certain respects my …

The ’80s Are Back! Or Maybe They Never Left.

As the Tantrum rages on over whether to put your kid’s photos online, recent circumstances compel me to respond to one of Nathan’s points: “In fact,” he wrote, “only Matt has actually ever put his kids’ pics on this blog.” I want to point out that I’ve never used Sasha’s picture gratuitously. She appears only …

No Child Left Behind: F-Train Edition

Like most parents, perhaps especially New York City parents, I spend my days gripped by sudden, irrational anxieties—the latest of which involves our daily ritual in the bowels of the subway system. This is how it goes: It’s evening, and I’m bringing Sasha home from daycare. We patiently wait on the sidewalk outside the East …