A quick and belated shot-out to DadWagon friend (and, when we are lucky, commenter) Nathan Hegedus, who currently has the “most liked” story on Slate, about The Happy Life of a Swedish Dad. Why is it most liked? Because, at root, it’s about the superiority of the European safety net, a cherished trope among Slate-reading …
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The Onion anticipates DadWagon’s next big move. Or, if we don’t actually escape from New York, we will certainly start fantasizing about it, around the time that the white snow turns ochre with dog feces and frat vomit. The article’s money quote, as far as I’m concerned: “This is no place to raise a kid, …
Via Strollerderby today I learned that 41 American children died this summer because their parents forgot them in the car on a hot day. That’s a lot of absent-minded parents! It reminded me of a story an older woman I used to work with told me about her first child. During her pregnancy, she and …
On Tuesday, Sasha tried to feed macaroni and cheese to a toy elephant. Then she took a plastic figurine into the bath. Clearly, this 21-month-old is learning how to treat inanimate objects as play partners, which means I have to face facts: She needs a doll of some kind, something she can identify with, name, …
