DADWAGON

Our day-care center is closed for the week of Independence Day. I don’t understand it–nobody else takes the week off, and isn’t the POINT of day care to cover for you when you’re at work?–but that’s the situation, and we aren’t going to change it. Both my wife and have heavy-duty workloads this week, and [...]

“Perfect!” exclaimed Sasha’s new teacher when I went to pick her (that is, Sasha) up from her first day of day care. “She was perfect.”
Apparently, she didn’t cry all day, had a lot of fun, and didn’t particularly want to leave when I showed up. Oh, she didn’t poop and only napped 30 minutes, but [...]

The baby is crying and crying and crying. She’s clinging to her father, grimacing in terror, while around her awkwardly stand four other toddlers, plastic cars in their fat hands, looks of perplexity on their round faces. What is going through their minds? I wonder, glad that the crying child isn’t actually mine. My Sasha [...]

Last night over dinner with an old friend, I found myself explaining, for the nth time, our childcare situation: We have two nannies, one who works three days a week and is awesome, and another who works two days a week and is pretty good. There’s one problem with both of them, however. Together, they [...]