God love the Times for continuing to throw these kinds of stories out there. The world that gets described in their parenting stories is so dystopian and over-the-top–“friendship coaches” to help kids socialize, schools trying to keep kids from having best friends because it can lead to cliques–that I get caught up and anxious for …
Monthly Archives: June 2010
How Fatherhood Changes You: You Get Older and Sicker, But It Works Out Okay
According to Kermyt Anderson and Peter Gray’s new book Fatherhood: Evolution and Human Paternal Behavior (a snappy little read from Harvard University Press), moms aren’t the only ones whose hormones go a little haywire during the early days of being a parent. Dads experience weird (though much milder) fluctuations, too. Among other things, our testosterone …
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A German Shel Silverstein?
You will have to forgive my hasty translations of all this, but last week when I was in Key West–where the heroic and dissolute Shel Silverstein lived and died–a German Facebook friend posted a poem that looked every bit like something Silverstein would have loved to have written. To the Children of Berlin (An Berliner …
Bad Dads We Love: Any Footsteps But Mine
When JP was first born, his mother and I used to discuss what he might do for a living when he grew up. We both agreed that he could do just about anything he wanted, with one exception: what I do. Now, I’m not doing so badly. I work for a reputable magazine, and every …