As we continue to explore the All Joy and No Fun paradox from last week, which included Christopher’s excellent Q&A with Jennifer Senior, here’s some Monday morning reading (is there any better kind?). On her Psychology Today blog, Nancy Darling has a slightly different take. For her, “parenting” seems all chore mainly because the word …
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Do Toddlers Dream of Demon Sheep?
Nico, just over 2 years old, had a nightmare last night. Midnight, house asleep, everything humid, all windows open, everywhere dark, and suddenly three screams in a row, a repetition of words I didn’t understand until the the next morning. I have several fixed roles in the family. I often cook, even more often clean …
Bad Kids: A Rebuttal
On Monday morning, the DadWagon Idea Generation Complex (funded by DARPA) sent around an article written by a New York psychiatrist, Richard Friedman, about how many of his “intelligent and articulate” patients were quite inexplicably burdened with children who were simply bad people. For Christopher, who blogged about the article that afternoon, the piece unearthed …
The Tantrum: Should You Have Another Goddamn Kid? Part 3
I clearly have too much DadWagon on the brain, because last night–twelve hours before even starting to write this Tantrum–I dreamt that my wife and I were about to have a third child. It wasn’t exactly a nightmare, per se, but it was a sweaty, busy dream in which I think my main disposition was …
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