Not Taking Care of Children in the 1970s
2014-08-21 – The other day, my friend Kara posted a fun article on Facebook called “8 Reasons Children of the 1970s Should All Be Dead.” It talks about how parents […]
Tag Archives: Children
Eight Months Pregnant
2013-08-18 – Twenty years ago this month, my wife Kit and I took our 18-month old son Nat on a vacation to a cottage on a lake in Wisconsin. […]
Evil Cohort
2013-07-07 – Think about cave people. Can you imagine cave people rounding up 30 11-year-olds and forcing them to sit in rows for six hours a day with only one […]
Trophies for Just Showing Up
2013-05-15 – You see it everywhere: people decrying a culture that gives trophies for just showing up. It’s socialist, they say, not to demand excellence, to reward behavior that anyone […]
Death of a Child
2013-04-07 – To most people, especially parents, the death of a child is a secret, but ever-present dread. So when I saw the headline that Rick Warren’s 27-year old son […]
Cohorts Not Kids
2013-04-02 – The term for it is “cohort.” We send cohorts through school, not kids. Kids on the leading edge do well, but the further back you are in the […]
Three-Legged Dog
2012-08-16 – For the last week or so, I’ve been seeing a three-legged dog during my morning walk to the train. It’s not immediately apparent that the dog only has […]
Next Week’s Laundry
2012-08-12 – I’m not sure when I first became aware of Pete Seeger, but it couldn’t have been any later than the Summer of 1969, because that’s when I bought […]
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