Came across this horrific story at (the normally silly and unreadable) Babble today about a 2-year-old girl who goes into potentially lethal seizures every time she cries. The girl has something called Reflex Anoxic Seizure, a syndrome that impacts about 8 children out of every 1,000, according to an extraordinarily unreliable Web search I just …
Author Archives: Theodore
The Horror, the Horror: The Prequel
Two years ago, on the coldest day of the year, at 4:30 a.m., I could be found standing in line in the dark in Brooklyn, shivering, too cold even to drink coffee. J.P. was 2, and it was time to enroll him in a local preschool/daycare. Now, to say “enroll” makes the process seem in …
Fear and Loathing in Preschool
So the teachers at J.P.’s preschool told my ex that one of the youngsters in his class was “acting out” yesterday and that he gouged J.P.’s face with a toy, drawing blood. Wisely, I suppose, the teachers declined to share the name of the boy who did this, but since J.P. immediately told me (Forest), …
America’s Next Tot Model
A trend story from the WSJ of the sort only the Times (and I) could love: More parents are signing their children up with modeling agencies and talent classes, in search of fame and, even better, a little extra money in a weak economy. Agencies like Wilhelmina International Inc.’s Wilhelmina Kids and Teens and Funnyface …