DADWAGON

Yes, of course I know that gender stereotyping in young people is bad for their development. I’m a sensitive, progressive, up on the new trends in parenting kind of guy.
Thus it pains me that when JP was pushing a year, I was adamantly opposed to keeping his hair long. My issue with it was simple [...]

Continuing our discussion of small boys with long hair: My opinion is clear but bifurcated. I believe that those Texan folks are nuts for trying to prohibit any hairstyle–and I say this as a man who grew up in New Jersey in the eighties, amid the world’s greatest concentration of mullets and, briefly, something called [...]

(This is the third in our new series, “The Tantrum,” in which each of our four regulars will address one subject over the course of a week. Read about TV trauma here and ratting out your kid here, and Nathan’s post against long hair for preschool boys here.)
Maybe this is just evidence of how distanced we New [...]