I know, I should be happy. There is, after all, a revolution under way — a movement to end the overhyped, overprotective phenomenon known as Overparenting. So sayeth Time magazine: “The insurgency goes by many names — slow parenting, simplicity parenting, free-range parenting — but the message is the same: Less is more; hovering is …
Author Archives: Matt
It’s Official: I Live in Brooklyn
Last night my old college friend Matt and I went out for a drink at a dim cocktail bar in our Brooklyn neighborhood. We hadn’t seen each other in a month, and so had some catching up to do: How was his trip to Hawaii with his wife? What random projects was I working on? …
Horrible Children Will Steal Our Jobs
It’s bad enough that the old-media conglomerates that pay us Dadwagoneers are struggling to make it through 2009, but now Gawker warns us that a half-dozen rugrats are angling for our positions—and will probably get them. To these kids, I say: Fine, take over. But enjoy it while it lasts. Because it won’t be long …
What Almost Made Me Cry Today: “Marley & Me”
I may not like dogs or Jennifer Aniston, but watching Owen Wilson as a somewhat smarmy newspaper columnist saying good-bye to his dying, incorrigible pooch was almost too much for me. Almost. On a man-tears scale of 1 to 10, I’d give this is 6. Next time, make the dog a cat.