You know, sometimes you feel as though a large chunk of your life can be boiled down to a few paragraphs, even a few sentences. But hats off to Our Lady of Perpetual Breadcrumbs, a momblogger who seems to have got it all into this one pithy sketch. Look me in the eye and tell …
Monthly Archives: July 2010
What Almost Made Me Cry Today: Bad Kids Edition
I have to say, this essay went through me like an arrow made of ice and tipped with curare. It might’ve been called “When Bad Children Happen to Good People,” and addresses that thing we all have in the backs of our minds: What if I do everything right and still raise a horrible person? …
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The Cruelty of Informed Consent
From Aaron Gouveia, a reporter in Cape Cod who writes the blog DaddyFiles, comes a post that in just a few hundred brutal words offers the best argument I’ve read against those anti-abortion “informed consent” laws that require women to sit through gruesome explanations of what is about to happen to themselves and to the …
The Tantrum: Should You Have Another Goddamn Kid? Part 2
The answer to this Tantrum question is pretty easy. Let’s look at the facts, shall we? Your kids are annoying. They scream behind me on the airplane, they intrude on my special bar time, they shoot my kid with water pistols (okay, Theodore’s kid does). Should you have another goddamn one? Hell, no. But if …
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