Taxicab Confessions

November 17th, 2009 by Nathan | 2 Comments

So this is a picture of my kid getting into the back of a cab, with no carseat, on Avenue B on Saturday. Am I a bad father? Oh yeah. Okay, so usually he’s in someone’s arms when we ride in a cab.  And we don’t do this often, maybe a couple times a month. [...]


Bad Dads We (Don’t) Love: Papa Pederast

November 13th, 2009 by Nathan | No Comments

Stories like this one put me completely at ease with my own flaws as a parent. Whatever decisions I make as a father, I can pretty much guarantee I won’t become the ringleader, along with my children, of a murderous, child-abusing cabal in rural western Missouri. Actually, stop reading the linked article after first few [...]


Bad Dads We Love: Vol. 1

November 6th, 2009 by Theodore | No Comments

Wonderful photos (but NSFW ads). Truly. No, don’t thank me. Particularly like the one of the father eating his under-1-year-old child. Bread looks good—and he didn’t skimp on the mayo, or is that…? Oh, no! Spit-up?


How to Shout at your Child… the Right Way

November 5th, 2009 by Nathan | 3 Comments

Over the weekend I hurt my 3-year-old daughter’s feelings. The first thing she did afterward was rat me out: “Daddy called me ‘bad Dalia,’” she told her mother before proceeding, in a very deliberate way that she must have picked up in school, to describe how this had hurt her feelings and she didn’t think [...]




  

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