Reading Nathan’s and Theodore’s thoughtful considerations of this important parenting question, I quivered with fear: Really? This is the shit I’m going to have to face with Sasha two years from now? Frankly, it all feels highly theoretical, and that’s probably because I have absolutely no experience with gifted-and-talented programs. Neither of the public school …
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Before I delve too deeply into this topic, I’d like to take issue with the coverage Nathan’s post yesterday received on the New York Times’s City Room blog. Hardly fair to call it a “rant,” I think. Screed, yes. Potentially libelous of our city’s educators, possibly. Unhinged? You be the judge. But rant, I think …
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A little afternoon chaser from Belinda Luscombe, who wrote at Time.com’s Healthland blog about a fishy (froggy?) new business in France: Here’s how it works: you send Lamby, Kissy, Teddy or your stuffed animal of choice to Denis Gerber and he’ll escort it around the City of Light, snap photos of it at the Place …
Just a quick note of congratulations to DadWagon buddy John Cave Osborne, who has landed a blogging gig at Strollerderby, the hyper-polished, if often frustrating, parenting blog at Babble.com. John, who has long been gamely blogging the experience of raising triplets (good lord) and a stepdaughter in Knoxville, is off to a strong start at Strollerderby, …
