DADWAGON

“Princess Snow White!” screamed Sasha one day last week in the middle of the East Broadway F-train station. I looked around: Huh? There were no subway posters advertising Disney’s oldest animated princess, no kids dressed up as Snow White—nothing. Then I gazed down two sets of stairs to the train platform, where on another kid’s [...]

Forget my headline. I actually have a huge sense of admiration for this man, Clifford J. Levy, after reading his story of throwing his children defenseless into the icy waters of Slavic education in the upcoming NYT Magazine. Here’s him setting the stage: My three children once were among the coddled offspring of Park Slope, [...]

This day, the one after Labor Day, always has a bit of that fin de siècle feeling. One thing ends, another begins. This was true, of course, during my long and stuttering journey through schooling, right up until I (finally) finished college and then saw that the life of a working adult makes no differentiation [...]

Hey, look at that! Matt and Nathan have recently made appearances in other media. Here’s Mr. Thornburgh quoted in Daily Finance on his decision not to have a third kid: “Right around the time you start considering a third kid is when you start paying full-fare airfare on the kids you already have, along with [...]