We DadWagoners, so chummy and close in blogland, actually don’t see each other that much. It’s not that we have some sort of seething Fred-hates-Ethel offscreen dysfunction. It’s just that we are scattered across two boroughs, somewhat busy and absent enough from our own homes that we don’t actually have much time to throw back …
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How do you say wtf in Mandarin?
A beautiful day in Russia, 75 degrees and sunny, and it’s been a whole six weeks since someone last blew themselves up in the subway. But the Russians, never ones to shy from dark thoughts, are thinking and talking about China, and the latest batshit insane trend: murderous rampages in kindergartens. There was another one …
Clorox Chicken and other Gerber flavors
Ok, so this isn’t really an answer to Matt’s questions about Russian kidlit in his excellent Raskolnikov for Lil’ Rascals link. But I am here in Moscow, and other than actually missing my kids quite a bit (they’ve been extra cute as of late, which makes a two-week trip like this just a bit harder …
Down with Pronouns
One of the marvels of language development–this process that all of us parents get an unexpected front-row seat for–is how a child will occasionally fall into a vortex, some pattern of wrong or incomplete language that they get stuck in just long enough for us to take notice. It is a real phenomenon, not like …