I think it’s only fair that I point out that Tomoko specifically asked me not to write about this subject this morning. She had just finished cooking pancakes for me and JP (and coffee, too!), and was about to give Ellie a sponge bath. I’ve only recently gone back to work full time since Ellie …
Monthly Archives: December 2010
The Tantrum, Part 2: Why Can’t Jews Just Ignore Santa?
For the moment, I’m a lucky bastard. Sasha is only 2 years old, and can’t fully distinguish red from green, let alone understand what a holiday is, and why we would or wouldn’t be celebrating it. But the Christmas/Hanukkah dilemma has been an issue in our household for many years already, and will likely never …
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Should the Babysitter Take the Kids to the Movies?
One of the lovely things about having a blog with thoughtful readers (as distinct from most of our visitors, who arrive in a fruitless search for pederasty) is that I don’t need advice columnists. I don’t have to suffer the smugness of traditional advice columnists, the nerditude of the Times Ethicist, or the colonic graphicness …
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