One of the chief joys of parenthood is watching your child change. Partly this stems from realizing that we adults are now pretty much what we’re always going to be, that change for us is done, and that now when things do change, it’s unlikely to be for the better. But with the kids, their …
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The Tantrum: Should You Put Your Kids’ Photos on the Internet?
(This is the Tantrum, in which Dadwagon’s writers debate one question over the course of a week. For previous Tantrums, click here.) Don’t freak out! The disgusting and disturbing photo you see to the right is not your child’s face Photoshopped onto Newt Gingrich’s body. It’s some other parent’s kid. So relax. Because this frightening …
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The Young & the Restless & the Bitchy
Most of the time when I take Sasha to a playground, I interact very little with the other parents. Sasha’s still very young, and needs to be watched, or to have her hand held, as she climbs up wooden stairs and yells “Whee!” as she cruises down a slide. But yesterday, for whatever reason, she …
Dawson’s Creek or Boerum Hill?
Life in the #4 neighborhood in New York is very complicated. One day you’re hitting on the girl with the yoga mat in the local cafe, the next your 2-year-old son is trying to impress Michelle Williams’s daughter. So it goes, writes Albert Stern (“a writer, lives in Brooklyn”) in the Times‘ “Modern Love” column: …