It’s Spring! And its arrival did perk up the Dadwagoners, with the promise of warm weather, flowers, and babies (though we already have the latter). Enticed by the bright candy colors (both of the store and of SoCal in general) Nathan reconsidered his longstanding anti-Bugaboo position. He spent way too much time watching the indeterminately …
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The Tantrum: Should Parents Bring Their Kids to Nice Restaurants? Part III
(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) Are you out of your mind? Of course not. The social contract holds that a first-rate dinner should not be spoiled by many things, and intrusive behavior from a nearby high chair is …
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But Will He Plot His Escape Via Airplane?
In a charming essay here, a Londoner named Sathnam Sanghera cops to being a 33-year-old man whose biological clock is ticking. A Bridget Jones with testosterone, a Charlotte York before her Harry comes into the picture. It’s a nice personal essay, if a little too long, and Sanghera zeroes in on the thing that’s most …
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What Almost Made Me Cry Today: Bedrooms of the War Dead
Yes, it’s an easy tearjerker, and the most cynical among us would say that it was conceived that way. But in “The Shrine Down the Hall, this weekend’s Times Magazine feature on the bedrooms left behind by kids who went to war in Afghanistan and Iraq, had me from the first photo. What we see, …
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