We’re don’t do much kid-dialog here at DadWagon (we prefer to leave that sort of thing to Sweet Juniper, who has a fine eye for the detail of juvenile repartee). But here it is anyhow: Yesterday evening, when Nico, who’s almost 2, was being put to bed, Dalia got serious, in the way that 4-year-olds do. She …
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The Tantrum: Should I Send my Kid to Private School? Part 2
Despite vast differences in intellectual heft (he wins) and hairline (I win), DadWagoner Theodore and I do have something in common: we are both caught in the maw of the New York public school “universal” pre-K bureaucracy. Theodore complained righteously about the lack of available spaces, but it’s even worse than he wrote, because you’re …
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Babies: the Movie
From a new Dad Blog called Band of Fathers, which I heard about from my “real world” friend and colleague Charlotte G., comes a debate about a movie called, simply enough, Babies. They pose a reasonable question: would dudes go see this? Or (in my words) is this just meant to be a lushly filmed …
In Defense of Trading Kids for Cockatoos
This disturbing (and yet somehow believable) crime story from Louisiana reopens an age-old debate. What’s worth more: two kids or a cockatoo? Yes, the child trader in the story swapped two kids (a girl, 4, and a boy, 5) for a cockatoo. But the bird wasn’t quite an equal trade, so she asked the couple …