The Parent Coaches put me in timeout

Last week’s volley aimed at the Parent Coaching industry got a lot of responses, some on the site, some by email. It wasn’t the most diplomatic post I’ve ever written (parent coaching “seems like bullshit”! The Parent Coaching Institute offers “pseudo-degrees”!). But for the most part, the aggrieved parent coaches out there took the upper …

Granite changing tables: a bad idea

Note to Aventura Mall: I know you want to be upscale. This is Florida, after all, and everybody wants to be upscale. And I commend you for putting changing tables in the men’s room (complete with a sign saying “changing table” or somesuch). It even has a sink right next to it, which is a …

Slagging the Parent Coaching Industry

We here at DadWagon are all for better, more thoughtful parenting (except when we’re sorta not), but let me just say that there seems to be a lot of private Parent Coaching out there, and some of it sure looks like bullshit to me. Let’s see what one prominent parent-coach factory, the Seattle-based Parent Coaching Institute, has to …