Big Preg Takes ’Em All On

Big Preg over at Accidents Will Happen pivoted off of our Babies-in-Bars dust-up and wrote a fantastic essay on Parentitlement. In a handful of linked arguments, she adds more thought to the subject than a thousand screaming monkeys (I include us in that) scared up last week after the CNN.com story. A vignette: Children are …

What New Yorkers Name Their Kids

Okay, this is unscientific almost to the point of being Gladwellian, but I’ve noticed a lot of crazy names written under the pictures of schoolkids in my meanderings through the pre-K and kindergarten classrooms of the New York public schools. Sometimes I wish we weren’t all so predictable, but in my small sample, the three major ethnic groups …