About nine months ago, when Sasha was just three months old and I was all of a sudden home with her all day, I e-mailed our friends at DaddyTypes.com with the following problem: “As a brand-new stay-at-home dad, I’m a little mystified about what to DO all day with the baby. I mean, apart from …
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What Almost Made Me Cry Today: Swine-Flu Edition
This morning, as I was lying in bed, Sasha came toddling along the floor toward me. As I reached out my hand to rub her head, Jean suddenly cut in: “Don’t do that—you’re sick!” Yes, it’s true: I have the flu, though whether it’s the porcine variety or some other vengeful animal’s, I don’t know. …
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My Most Favorite Nightmare
Because I have too much free time, and because my imagination tends to work in the weirdest of ways, I often dream up nightmare scenarios involving myself and my daughter. The most common one goes thus: My wife and I somehow die silently in our apartment, but Sasha survives—at least for a few days, during …
Child Proof
Theorem: A child, S, can survive to adulthood if and only if her immediate environment is rid of all potential dangers (sharp edges, hard surfaces, electrical outlets, tripwires, venomous snakes). Discussion: From about the time S was starting to motivate, her mother and I realized we’d have to rein her in somehow. As Christopher is …