(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one issue over the course of a week. Normally, we try to answer a question, but this week, with the publication of “Are We Winning? Fathers and Sons in the New Golden Age of Baseball,” by Will Leitch, we’re doing something different. For previous Tantrums, click …
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All I want to know is: Who do I sue? It’s not that anything bad happened to Sasha. I’m just… let’s say curious? I mean she’s taken the stuff in the last couple of months, so like if she doesn’t get into Harvard, or if she grows small horns, can I start a class action? …
Continue reading “Children’s Tylenol Recall: Important Questions”
My favorite type of parenting writing is the kind that tells you to re-examine your fatherly (or motherly) anxieties and then just dump them down a deep, dark mineshaft and forget about them completely. Today’s example—an article in Slate revealing that the milestones we rely upon to tell us how our babies are developing have …
Continue reading “Another Great Reason to Just Chill Out, Fer Chrissakes!”
Sasha has entered that wonderful phase where she’s learning new words at an impressive rate. Over the weekend, she started saying “Please!” and accompanying the word with the ASL sign as well. She knows where her head, eyes, nose, mouth, feet and belly are—in both English and Chinese. She can tell apples from oranges, most …
