During the workweek, John Donohue is an editor at the “Goings On About Town” section of the New Yorker. But most weekends—and on the rare weeknight when he has time—you can find him in his kitchen, cooking for his wife and two young daughters. Fatherhood is still a role more associated with breadwinning than bread-baking, …
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There aren’t many things I won’t second-guess myself about. Particularly when it comes to parenting, I’m more than happy to indulge thoughts that involve “I shouldn’t have said that” or “What the hell was I thinking?” But I will not be baited by the Star Wars scare-droids. You know: those people who tell you that …
As anyone within earshot knows by now, my oldest kid, the daughter, turned 5 over the weekend. This is a big number. They’re all big of course, to the kid, but 5 has some sort of watershed feeling. I just turned 35, and it felt like a tollbooth to get onto the road to 40, …
Consider this a mini-Tantrum. Usually, all three of the Wagoneers weigh in on a single tantrum topic. Matt already wrote his post about whether or not to get a job (synapsis: he is tempted). But Theodore was exempted from writing, since he actually made his opinion known in the most emphatic way possible: by taking a …
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