Some things you can’t unread. Like this Gawker story, which may be true or not true, and about which I don’t want to reveal any details. Except that it involves some very, very bad parenting indeed—the kind of stuff that normally might make our Bad Dads We Love category, except that there’s nothing whatsoever to …
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How to Screw Up Your Kids, Scientifically
Following from Chris’s post this morning, in which he revealed that researchers have Solved Fatherhood!, I did some Googling around to see what others have made of the argument that good fathering depends on Accessibility, Engagement, and Responsibility. And what I found, in a nearly year-old post on the blog of Philadelphia Stories, a Pennsylvania-based …
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Babies vs. Fathers: The Movie(s)
While some parents are excitedly anticipating the May 7 release of “Babies: The Movie,” the anthropological look at infants around the world, others of us are a bit more, shall we say, self-involved. We don’t care about babies—we wanna see dads onscreen! Which is why, I suppose, there’s “The Evolution of Dad,” a DVD documentary …
Panic in the Streets! Sheer Panic!
Via Gawker comes a tale of pedo-panic in San Francisco: Everyone knows the only thing people do with their cell phones is take weird sex pictures. When moms saw a man lurking around San Francisco’s Mountain Lake Park apparently taking cell phone pics of their kids, they leaped into action. That is, they took pictures …