Little Brawler

Remember how, just hours ago, I decried the child-salon-industrial-complex? Well, I stand by those statements, but I’m not entirely sure I would say it to this kid to his face. Theodore is our usual wrestling correspondent here on DadWagon–he wrestled in high school and spearheaded DadWagon’s remarkable coverage of the Butt Drag. But I’m stepping …

Expensive Haircuts for Your Little Shit

As our little buddies over at Gawker pointed out–is this the kind of scoop that Nick Denton redesigned for?–some children get very expensive haircuts. They quote a particularly odious example in Los Feliz called La La Ling Salon, which advertises “trendy designer haircuts, hair styling (think spray-on hair color and hair tinsel) and kiddo-friendly beauty …

Super Incredible MIT Nerd Dad

Featured by FastCompany and the Beeb, and now at TED (a famous intellectual colloquium that somehow forgets to invite DadWagon each year): a super-intrusive MIT-scientist dad who recorded his child’s first 90,000 hours of life and words and had supercomputers boil it down to create the Human Speechome Project. From the BBC: Professor [Deb] Roy wandered …

Russian TV Reduces Baby Yoga’s Lena Fokina to Tears

A high-profile Russian talk show–Channel 1’s пусть говорят (Let Them Talk) with host Andrei Malakhov–dove yesterday into the (still!) ongoing Russian baby yoga controversy. Their star guest? None other than former DadWagon interviewee Lena Fokina herself, freshly escaped from the revolution in Egypt and, I have to say, still looking ridiculously fit for a 50-year-old. I’m …