Oh, Sweden. How you taunt us! Your women, your furniture, your crime novelists, your baby carriers—how can we brännvin-deprived Americans even compete? Especially with stories like this one floating around. I mean, I knew Swedish men got ridiculous amounts of parental leave, but I figured you dudes spent all those “generously paid” months in a …
Author Archives: Matt
Tales of an Absentee Dad: Part LXVI
Obsessive Attentive readers may have noticed my absence from DadWagon over the past week or so. But, of course, this is normal—I’m always off on some ridiculous trip or another. This time, however, I was gone for a mere six days. But in that brief span of time, I seem to have missed a lot. …
The Godparent Trap
I don’t pretend to understand what constitutes a discussion about social mores in England, but these days it apparently involves something called the Tatler, Martin Amis, and fairy godparents. That is, British godparents suck: It’s what one might call the Godparent Trap: Like a horror B-movie, legions of zombie godparents are walking mindlessly among us. The …
The Best Father’s Day Gift Ever
When I contemplated fatherhood—long, long ago, for a couple of minutes—I never imagined myself as that guy. You know, the one obsessed with big-boy toys like boats and cars, the one who showers his gadgets with more love than he does his children, the one for whom ostentatious displays of wealth often substitute for simply …