While Nathan’s daughter was learning the questionably valuable skill of swimming the other day, my kid, Sasha, tested out a far more important talent: her ability to lie. I was schlepping her home from the subway in the aftermath of an evening thunderstorm, and she’d somehow got me to carry her. But after a block …
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Okay, this isn’t so much a post as it is a miniature contest. Or a cry for help. Make that a scream from the pit of my stomach. Basically, I need your help, you brilliant DadWagon readers, to name a phenomenon. Here is the phenomenon: Kids, from the time they become mobile, seem to have …
This happens sometimes: It’ll be 7:30-ish, and I’ll be in the kitchen, starting to get dinner ready. I’ll be chopping onions, or crushing Sichuan peppercorns, when in walks Jean from the other room. I’ll look at her quizzically and ask, “Where’s Sasha?” I ask this because the last I knew, Sasha was having a bath. …
At a July 4th picnic in Prospect Park, our good friends John and Mai told us they’d recently brought their kid, Leo, to see Cars 2: Electric Boogaloo at a real, honest-to-gosh movie theater. He liked it, of course; he was already a fan of Cars 1: The Merchandising Begins. But for a moment I …
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