Once upon a time, I was an optimist. Things could be tough, I knew, but I always had a sense that they’d get better, eventually—that the world was, on some level, a good place. According to science, however, I was wrong. Over the past few days, a number of stories have destroyed my faith in …
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I just finished reading John Seabrook’s article in the New Yorker, “The Last Babylift,” which recounted his experiences adopting a child from Haiti. Seabrook, who is married, in his fifties, and already has a biological (I think) child, is set after much bureaucratic difficulty to bring home a child from Haiti. When the earthquake hits, …
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The girl is not that happy in her ballet classes. They are cheap, which makes me happy, but poorly structured–she, a 4-year-old, is lumped in with mostly 3-year-olds, and that means she has a hard time making friends in the class. No friends = little motivation to go. I’m not normally a fan of taking …
Here on DadWagon, we tend to think the worst of our children. From mean girls to pathological liars, we look upon our crotchfruit with not entirely equal parts fatherly affection and mounting horror. So I guess it shouldn’t surprise me that my daughter, Sasha, is a budding racist. Let me elaborate: She’s not prejudiced in …
