Yesterday I wrote about how we got our daughter to swim by telling her that she couldn’t. I want to just add, briefly, that it is not always a good thing, this humiliating your child with various burning words. Case in point: on return from that same gloriously flamingo’d state where Dalia learned to swim, …
Monthly Archives: July 2011
Kids Are Smart And Adults Are Dumb
Usually, I’m not a proponent of this theory: generally, any individual who needs five years to learn to wipe his own butt, as has been the case with JP, doesn’t rate too high on the intellectual scale. But this little boy’s analysis and internalization of the modern dynamics of marriage is incisive. And he plays …
Ow, My Balls! A DadWagon Contest
Okay, this isn’t so much a post as it is a miniature contest. Or a cry for help. Make that a scream from the pit of my stomach. Basically, I need your help, you brilliant DadWagon readers, to name a phenomenon. Here is the phenomenon: Kids, from the time they become mobile, seem to have …
And Then, Suddenly: Victory
A child’s development is a strange, lurching thing. You are convinced you kid can’t (or in some cases can) do this-or-that, and then on a dime, it all changes. This is how it went on Friday with my daughter. The skill: water-survival. The backstory: for years now our daughter, an intense and thoughtful five-year-old who …