Yes, I know it’s only Monday, but it’s hard to imagine any of our otherwise brilliant commenters besting this one, a scathing response to Theodore’s “un-birthday” post from his own mother: liar liar pants on fire i called twice –you did not answer — i texted twice –you did not answer . then i left …
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Our Favorite Kids: Filthy, Brainy, Not Actually Our Own
Recently, I’ve come across further evidence—you might even call it incontrovertible proof—of DadWagon’s influence over American parenting. Exhibit one is this child, Ellie (not to be confused with Theodore’s child), and her amazing vocabulary: The other, worth checking out once you’ve stopped giggling at that video, is this one, in which a toddler demonstrates her …
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Anarkea in the U.K.!
From Dadwagon subsidiary BoingBoing comes this entertaining rock video, by Punks Not Dad, about the horrors of assembling flat-pack Swedish furniture. As I’m in the middle of a kitchen renovation (for which I’m paying other people large sums to assemble said furniture for me), the song really strikes a chord with me:
A Week on the Wagon
This week marked an end—and therefore a new beginning—for those of us on the ‘wagon. Theodore in particular: Newly laid-off from Harper’s Magazine, he decided to devote himself full-time to parenting, eschewing snark and sarca— Oh, wait, sorry. It didn’t quite happen that way. While he did briefly, earnestly consider whether his children would look …