DadWagon readers: Let me wax poetic for a moment and share one of my favorites by James Dickey, “The Heaven of Animals,” as I think these few lines aptly describe the tenor of our parenting blog this week: To match them, the landscape flowers, Outdoing, desperately Outdoing what is required: The richest wood, The deepest …
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A babysitter in hand is worth two daycares in the bush (or not)
I wanted to react briefly to Christopher’s post yesterday on his never having used a babysitter. Not to be too harsh, but Chris—so what? Let’s consider the distinction your drew between your child’s daycare and a sitter. First, I’m not convinced that daycare is “hardly the same thing” as a babysitter. In fact, while they …
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Bad Dads We Love: No, Matt, we must not hire serial killers as baby-sitters
See here’s the thing about Matt that most of you don’t know — he’s fucking crazy. And no, I’m not talking about his drinking-with-child proclivities, or the fact when you say to him “Asian Market,” he sees “a romance … a festive, rainbow spirit” and not salmonella. No, I’m talking about the danger he’s willing …
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SAHD: Earn your acronym, fellows
I should start out by saying that there is no argument about the amount of childraising done by men and women. Even in this dual income world, where mothers bring home the bacon, fry it up in a pan, do the laundry, meet the sexual needs of their lazy-ass spouses, the expectations and the reality …