This weekend’s New York Times Magazine has a big feature that all of us who care about how kids think and learn should be reading. It’s called “The Moral Life of Babies,” and it’s about how babies become “civilized beings.” At least, I think that’s what it’s about. Honestly, it’s pretty hard to tell. Let’s …
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(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one issue over the course of a week. Normally, we try to answer a question, but this week, to mark the publication of “Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball,” by Will Leitch, we’ve done something different. Today, we welcome …
This year, give the mother of your children a special gift—the gift of blame. Yes, how she treats the kids may (or may not!) screw them up for life. That’s according to the results coming out of USA Today Laboratories: With Mother’s Day around the corner, new research is shedding some light on what happens …
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(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one issue over the course of a week. Normally, we try to answer a question, but this week, with the publication of “Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball,” by Will Leitch, we’re doing something different. For previous Tantrums, click …
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