Parent Crap, Reviewed: Life360, A Suite of Applications Designed to Prey on Your Irrational Fears

Of all the evil, unnecessary products marketed toward anxious parents, Life360 may be one of the most disgusting—a sign that our society deserves whatever fiery, zombie-ridden fate awaits it. At first glance, though, Life360 seems almost innocuous, maybe even useful. It’s primarily a GPS-based system for monitoring the whereabouts of your spouse and children via …

The Tantrum: Should You Just Move to the Suburbs Already? Part 2

Dadwagon, as is well known, is the first and last stop for millions of Americans (and billions of foreigners) who want the straight dope on fatherhood in the world’s only important metropolis: New York City. And yet, despite Nathan’s, Theodore’s and my own intense NYC partisanship, none of us are 100 percent city-born and -raised. …

“Trick or Treat?” (A.K.A. The Lollipops! The Fucking Lollipops!)

Not that I really have much experience in these things, but if you want to witness a toddler’s full emotional spectrum, Halloween is a pretty damn good time to do so. I mean, if you’d seen Sasha yesterday—running along the bumpy sidewalks of Brooklyn in her Old Navy bumblebee costume, jazzed on candied sucrose, warbling …