What Stupid Kind of Parent Are You?

August 24th, 2010 by Matt | 2 Comments

Just yesterday, you were at the playground, chasing little Ayden as he bolted around the jungle gym, keeping a hand outstretched in case he might stumble and fall. Or maybe you were at a middle-school PTA meeting, cowing the other moms and dads into submitting to your field-trip theories. Or perhaps you were at the [...]


¿Como Se Dice “Pretentious”?

August 19th, 2010 by Christopher | 3 Comments

Look, I understand white liberal guilt. You want to be an enlightened Eat Pray Love multicultural creature, but you lead an unadventurous life—work, home, Thai takeout, sleep—and it means you mostly deal with people roughly like yourself. You would like your children to do better, to be citizens of the world, able to leap the [...]


The Ghost Stroller: If It’s Art, It’s Bad Art

August 17th, 2010 by Carolina A. Miranda (guest critic) | 6 Comments

[When it comes to parenting, pornography, and Polaroids, Dadwagon's editors are experts. But art criticism? Not so much. That's why we called in Carolina A. Miranda, who covers art, design, and architecture for WNYC and blogs at c-monster.net, to tackle the issue that's been perplexing us: Is the Park Slope Ghost Stroller art?]
As the New [...]


Kindergarten: It Really Matters

July 28th, 2010 by Christopher | 3 Comments

Front page of the Times today reports an “explosive” study from the world of education: that a good kindergarten teacher appears to make a huge difference in a child’s life, in everything from future family life to adult income. I have to admit, I’m skeptical, at least until I see more about the study’s methodology. [...]


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