My voice has been a little mute around the ‘Wagon these days. That’s largely because I’ve been in Austin trying to figure out just who is going to pay for this here DadWagon blog: I’ve had great conversations with the folks from Babble, with Gretchen Rubin, with our DadBlogger buddies, even Guy Kawasaki, who I …
Author Archives: Nathan
The Great OLSAT Pigment Test
The search for a public kindergarten for Dalia seems to be in a lull: we’ve applied to all the schools in our neighborhood, including our zoned school (which maintains a waitlist each year because of too much demand), all the dual-language programs we can find, and even to PS333, which apparently will allow us the …
Like Cookie Monster, Except for Cocaine
From our friend DaddyTypes, who continues to find high-brow ways to tilt at the seas of low-brow controversies that surround us, a proto-Charlie Sheen appearance by Cookie Monster with Martha Stewart. What I find most uncanny about this orgasmic delay-then-gratify appearance is how they managed to exactly render my daughter’s behavior around chocolate, even though …
Amazon’s Most Popular Dog Toy for Kids
Nice piece from Slate’s Josh Levin raises an important question about Sophie the Giraffe, Amazon’s best-selling baby item (outranking even the Snotsucker that DadLabs elevated to national prominence): is it just a dog toy? You wouldn’t know it from the marketing. As Levin writes: For those with more developed aesthetic sensibilities (and more consistent access to a …