The irony, of course, of this week is that we didn’t write nearly as much as we usually do, and for that laziness/impertinence/vitiligo we were reward with lots ‘n’ lots of readers, who came from all over the world to look at pictures of Russian women freediving, frolicking, and, of course, swinging babies over their …
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Sasha is now just over 2 years old, and she’s talking—a lot. “Okay, let’s go outside!” she’ll say, and once we’re out on the disgusting streets of New York, she’ll point at patches of ice and say, “Slippery! Be careful.” She just goes and goes, and what she doesn’t know how to say in real …
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From our friend, the inimitable DaddyTypes, we learned about a new mom-op-ed in the WSJ–original home for the now fully meme-ified Tiger Mom excerpt. This new essay is from Lenore Skenazy, whom I look kindly on, despite her own adventures in book-opportunism and master self-branding. The topic this time? Man-mania, HISteria, paraBOYa, or whatever else …
First off, I’d like to lay claim to the title here at DadWagon of having put up The Nastiest Image of All Time. Charlie Brown, baby! OK: mothers lie, and this, apparently, qualifies as news. Via the Times’s Motherlode blog: In a survey of 5,000 British mothers by the Web site Netmums.com, a high percentage …
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