Monday afternoon I got a call from Miss Maggie, one of Sasha’s teachers at Preschool of America. Sasha had a fever, 102 degrees, and I needed to come take her home. My reaction was one of instant worry: Was my precious 2-year-old okay? Was 102 a potentially dangerous temperature for one of her age and …
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For those of you who read the offering of DadWagon’s newest guest blogger yesterday, it might seem that this site’s official position is anti-Parenting Magazine. In general this would be true. Typically we are more inclined towards the publishing aesthetic of Parents. Yet, we here at DadWagon strive, as ever, to resist a monolithic approach …
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The first thing you need to know is that my wife, my daughter and myself are assholes. Not the mean type, but the annoying type. The kind of horrible, disgusting yuppie parents you see in this wonderfully entertaining video: The second thing you need to know is that that video, written in probably 30 minutes, …
JP has entered an interesting phase of his development. A couple of weeks ago I received an irate phone call from his mother. She told me that JP had refused to do something she had told him to do, and his rationale for telling her no was that he always got to do exactly what …
