I’m hardly being original in saying that the comments made to most items posted on the Internet represent something independent of what was originally posted. What I mean is, you shouldn’t take comments personally as a writer, as the substance of the comments often have nothing to do with what you’ve written. I’m generally pretty …
Author Archives: Theodore
Sleeping While Male: Guilty As Charged
From the Times’s Motherlode blog: In the “Things You Already Knew But It’s Nice to Have Them Confirmed So You Know You Aren’t Imagining Things” department, the Washington Post ran news this week of a new research study that concluded that “Women are more likely than men to give up sleep to care for children.” …
USA Today: You don’t need the census (you need DadWagon!)
I’m returning home today from a reporting trip in Kansas City, where yet again, my favorite midwestern rabbi has taken me on a rib-eating tour. Perhaps the worst aspect of the traveling life here in the United States is that the complimentary newspaper of choice at most hotels is the USA Today, which even a …
Continue reading “USA Today: You don’t need the census (you need DadWagon!)”
Reading Too Young: The educator’s worst nightmare
I read this article in the Times with some interest. It recounts a debate among high power private school parents in Manhattan and educators in their high power private schools over when children should be taught to read. Essentially, the schools think kindergarten is too young, but the parents would like phonics working for their …
Continue reading “Reading Too Young: The educator’s worst nightmare”