Nico, just over 2 years old, had a nightmare last night. Midnight, house asleep, everything humid, all windows open, everywhere dark, and suddenly three screams in a row, a repetition of words I didn’t understand until the the next morning. I have several fixed roles in the family. I often cook, even more often clean …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
For Your Friday Enjoyment
Via Babble, I give you the ten worst parents of all time, with videographic evidence. My personal favorite: Dad with chainsaw…for laughs.
The Tantrum: Should You Have Another Goddamn Kid? Part 4
To tell you the truth, I’m surprised we’re even having this discussion, because I was somehow under the impression that all the Men of Dadwagon (and, more important, the Women of Dadwagon) were through with childbearing. Until Theodore told us his happy news, that is. I have to figure that next Matt is going to …
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Bad Kids: A Rebuttal
On Monday morning, the DadWagon Idea Generation Complex (funded by DARPA) sent around an article written by a New York psychiatrist, Richard Friedman, about how many of his “intelligent and articulate” patients were quite inexplicably burdened with children who were simply bad people. For Christopher, who blogged about the article that afternoon, the piece unearthed …