Quite by accident, we found ourselves at the Aventura Mall yesterday just north of Miami. Wedged between the yacht-ridden Intracoastal Waterway and the Turnberry Isle Resort and Golf Club, it is a vast citadel of shopping, a gilded pimple on the ass of debt-laden America. Exactly the kind of mall experience we were glad to …
Author Archives: Nathan
Preschoolers love disaster!
DadWagon has previously (and correctly) defended the right of children to be as annoying as adults on airplanes, but my 3-year-old girl has developed a new kind of menacing behavior on commercial flights: a loud and verbal curiosity about airplane disasters. It’s not that she’s worried. Quite the contrary. She has her fears, though they …
Behind the Backlash
As Theodore mentioned in his pithy ranticle from earlier today, the government does try to get involved in parenting from time to time. But among jackbooted thuggery are some good programs, and those, naturally, are also opposed by conservatives. Michael Salmonowicz at True/Slant points out that the Heritage Foundation opposes a Chicago program called Parents Too …
Better fathering through science
They call it “reactive parenting”. I think that basically means “going apeshit on your child”. How to avoid it? Well, in the past, the only tools available were mushy self-control techniques, like those on this site encouraging “quick cooling” and being a “Parent Coach, rather than a Parent Cop.” Boring! Now, fortunately, we’ve got Brain …