One of the things that amazed me about your piece is how free of overt anger it is. Are you not angry? 4:12 PM I’m still angry at times. But the further I’ve gotten away from my family, both emotionally and physically, the more my anger turned into plain old worry and fear and pain. …
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“Perfect!” exclaimed Sasha’s new teacher when I went to pick her (that is, Sasha) up from her first day of day care. “She was perfect.” Apparently, she didn’t cry all day, had a lot of fun, and didn’t particularly want to leave when I showed up. Oh, she didn’t poop and only napped 30 minutes, …
The baby is crying and crying and crying. She’s clinging to her father, grimacing in terror, while around her awkwardly stand four other toddlers, plastic cars in their fat hands, looks of perplexity on their round faces. What is going through their minds? I wonder, glad that the crying child isn’t actually mine. My Sasha …
Did I sense a bit more ambivalence over fatherhood this week? Although we started off debuting our very first video feature—a trip to the Toy Fair, yay!—and successfully redesigned America’s favorite lethal foodstuff, the hot dog, we spent a lot of time angsting over who our children are and what we’re doing as parents. The …
