OK, so that’s not an actual day, unlike yesterday’s Take Your Kid to School Day. But it should be. We are late to Lisa Belkin’s fine NY Times piece from this weekend, about how parents worry about the wrong things. But I wanted to highlight the money section, as far as I’m concerned: “The least …
Monthly Archives: September 2010
Franzenfreude: Reporting Trips From a Planet I’ve Never Visited
Apparently, this Jonathan Franzen fellow has written another book that people are excited about. A great deal has been and could be written about why his success tends to piss people off, but it does. Perhaps the best-written example of the anger he inspires through his great and enormous and giant success can be found …
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Funkbeds and Piggy Hampsters
Presuming most DadWagon readers have dabbled in procreation themselves, I am not going to try to impress you with stories of my kid’s cuteness. Your kids are cuter, I know. So I will try to present the adorable stream of neologisms that my 4-year-old has been unloosing on the English language as a linguistic phenomenon …
Inked
I caught a bit of this forum started by Jim Lin (of Busy Dad Blog). His question: What is the right policy on swearing and kids? It’s a good question, and one worth what I would call future-thinking (as in, deeper thought when I am freed of the subpurgatory that is jury duty). What I can say …