So when we went all viral with Babies in Bars, some of our astute critics pointed out that not only was baby Sasha crying in the picture, that the bar was, gasp, not even in New York. True that. It was, in fact, in Bernal Heights in San Francisco, and Matt was there doing his …
Author Archives: Nathan
Your kid won’t make you fit
A bit of bad news for all parents who thought just lifting their kids or chasing them around the house: two-thirds of moms with young kids in a Central College survey weren’t getting enough exercise from parenting alone. Time to hit the pool after all.
Thinking About Race in Pre-K
Last week I went to 112th and Lennox in West Harlem to see the universal pre-K program at P.S. 185. I’ve been looking at pre-K programs throughout uptown Manhattan ever since we discovered that we were too poor for private school but too rich for Head Start. It’s been a frustrating process; as I’ve written before, …
The Bullying-Industrial Complex
Ah, the hysteria. The Boston Globe reported yesterday on girl-bullying by mostly quoting a bunch of people who are in the girl-bully-business. People like Barbara Coloroso, author of The Bully, the Bullied and the Bystander (“If we don’t handle it in grade school … it only gets worse”). And Rachel Simmons, who wrote Odd Girl Out: The Hidden Culture of …