A scribe in Dinkytown unearthed this unearthly parenting technique: speaking to your child only in Klingon. For the first three years of life. Some might see this as some kind of child abuse. At best, it’s sucking up valuable brain space for a language that you can only actually use to communicate during ComiCon. But …
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So this is a picture of my kid getting into the back of a cab, with no carseat, on Avenue B on Saturday. Am I a bad father? Oh yeah. Okay, so usually he’s in someone’s arms when we ride in a cab. And we don’t do this often, maybe a couple times a month. …
I did not expect to find, while I was reporting on an arch-Communist playwright in Berlin, a children’s book for my 3-year-old daughter. But I did, for a very Eastern Bloc price of just €6. The author of poems like “Venus and Stalin,” Peter Hacks also wrote children’s stories. This one, The Bear at the Hunter’s Ball, …
Stories like this one put me completely at ease with my own flaws as a parent. Whatever decisions I make as a father, I can pretty much guarantee I won’t become the ringleader, along with my children, of a murderous, child-abusing cabal in rural western Missouri. Actually, stop reading the linked article after first few …
