Life is no less complicated in Europe, of course: people die, divorce, and occasionally find themselves imprisoned in Austrian dungeons. But the German government is making at least one part of life a little easier: parenting. I just got back from a week in Berlin and beyond visiting friends with babies, all of whom rely, …
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Enter Sandmann
Today is the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, and I’m here in Germany visiting as many new German babies as I can. I lived in Eastern Germany after reunification, and all my German friends are in the middle of a late baby boom — just like my friends back home. One thing that …
How to Shout at your Child… the Right Way
Over the weekend I hurt my 3-year-old daughter’s feelings. The first thing she did afterward was rat me out: “Daddy called me ‘bad Dalia,’” she told her mother before proceeding, in a very deliberate way that she must have picked up in school, to describe how this had hurt her feelings and she didn’t think …
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Caveat Emptor, Daddy Einstein
A modest defense of Disney and Baby Einstein