The Times’s Motherlode blog just ran an item about a woman in Florida who tweeted about the death of her 2-year-old boy. Here’s a recount of the events to give an idea of the scale of this thing: Two-year-old Bryson Ross drowned on Monday in the swimming pool of the home his family had just …
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Check out this article from the Superficial (which I, of course, read religiously), which is actually nothing more than a few photos of Jon Gosselin shooting a gun. Unfair? Yes. Piling on? Certainly. Cheap shot? You betcha. Happy Friday.
Please read this article from Parenting magazine: “Could Your Child Be Gay?” Or rather, don’t read it, because it’s ridiculous and awful and filled with pseudopsychology and fake-service-journalism-y things like this: “I saw a little boy recently wearing a T-shirt that said, I Like Pink and I Don’t Care What You Think! At first, I …
Let’s get this straight:I was raised by a father who couldn’t fix anything, couldn’t build anything, was not (and is not) a tinkerer, a mender, or to his credit, a borrower (be). He was a New Yorker, folks, and we have guys who deliver that stuff. I have a little edge on my dad in …
