(This is the Tantrum, in which the four Dadwagon editors debate an important, or sometimes pointless, issue in parenthood.) In New York City, there are many ways of getting attention. Some are hard, like rescuing someone who’s fallen onto the subway tracks or spending $185 per vote to get yourself re-elected mayor. Some, however, are …
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I Married a Foreigner!
Seventeen years after she moved to this country from a mountainous little island in the South China Sea—it’s called Taiwan—my wife is now, as of this morning, officially and, I hope, irrevocably, a U.S. citizen. Leaving aside all the reasons it took so long for this momentous event to occur—“You mean you don’t automatically become …
What Almost Made Me Cry Today in Fatherhood
The daily Google News summary of fatherly doings is typically full of death and misery—a machete murder, a snowmobile accident, Marky Mark producing a fourth child—but at least one tidbit today is topical and, with a bit of imagination, inspiring. In Port-au-Prince, Haiti, a New Zealand girl was found alive underneath the dead body of …
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Uncomfortable, Interrelated Questions
1. At what age might a child start to be traumatized by watching its parents have sex? 2. Did the implications of that question traumatize you as well?