This is a pretty fascinating one from Transparental, which is a parenting blog put together by, well, what is the vocabulary here? A woman, mother of two, is “transitioning” into a man, and is keeping a blog to document her experiences. (and for those of you out there, I am truly uncertain of the vocabulary; …
Monthly Archives: May 2010
The Tantrum: Fathers, Sons, and Sports, Part 1
(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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Another Great Reason to Just Chill Out, Fer Chrissakes!
My favorite type of parenting writing is the kind that tells you to re-examine your fatherly (or motherly) anxieties and then just dump them down a deep, dark mineshaft and forget about them completely. Today’s example—an article in Slate revealing that the milestones we rely upon to tell us how our babies are developing have …
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The Upside of Oil Spills
I know that our dear readers have been waiting to hear DadWagon’s reaction to the Deep Horizons oil spill gush, so here it is: I’m for it. Okay, not really, of course. But I speak as a dad and out of self-interest (nothing new there). That’s because this spill gush, as perverse as its consequences …