Or not. Or who cares? Ms. Chua did an interview that seemed to attempt to soften her image in advance of the publication of her book. And maybe she is a fine person–in fact I’m fairly certain she is–but I’m more interested in drawing your attention to the little tidbit of false equivalency at the …
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So, um, what does it mean when my daughter’s day care, the lauded Preschools of America, lets its domain-name registration (or hosting contract) lapse? Is that a bad sign?
Despite co-founding a parenting blog that is ever-so-slightly better than its peer blogs, I’ve never considered myself an expert on raising kids. Far from it, in fact, and I readily concede that there are reams of kiddie-related things of which I remain blissfully unaware. For example, I’ve never watched “Yo Gabba Gabba!” (JP is a …
Continue reading “Bad Dads We love: Labyrinth Celebration Edition”
In retrospect, it was obviously all my fault. As I sat on the bench in the East Broadway station, with Sasha at my side munching on her Chinese bakery sweet bun, I thought I might be able to quickly check my e-mail on my iPhone. I was wrong. As soon as Sasha saw the phone, …
