Maybe I should take this back. J.D. Salinger in The New Yorker (via TheAwl.com): “If your child likes—loves—you, the very love he bears you tears your heart out about once a day or once every other day.”
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Parents to Schools: You Can’t Handle the Tooth!
Perhaps because Sasha hasn’t yet entered the worlds of day care, preschool or kindergarten, I’m a little mystified by some of the controversies—or, as I see it, non-controversies—surrounding these institutions. For example, at Sharon Elementary School, in Robbinsville, N.J., administrators have made the apparently revolutionary decision to have recess before lunch–a move that, according to …
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Children Are the New Dogs Are the New Children
Earlier this week, I wrote about the ways in which, without entirely meaning to, I treat my daughter, Sasha, like a dog. Turns out I had that backwards. According to my beloved alma mater, dogs are the new children. In a New York Magazine cover story that ranges over a variety of topics—from how urban …
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Bad Dads We Love: J.D. Salinger
Now, I’m not the world’s greatest expert on the works of J.D. Salinger. I’m probably the only guy who read “The Catcher in the Rye” only once (it seems you either never read it—or read it 40 times), and the descriptions I saw of his insufferable Glass family just about guaranteed I’d never pick up …