September 30th, 2010 by Nathan | 3 Comments
Another day, another parenting story that should have come from the Onion, not the world of Actual News. From the article’s first paragraph: Sleep positioners marketed with the promise of helping babies sleep safely are too dangerous to use and should not be sold, U.S. officials warned on Wednesday. I did not buy any of [...]
April 28th, 2010 by Matt | 3 Comments
Via Gawker comes a tale of pedo-panic in San Francisco: Everyone knows the only thing people do with their cell phones is take weird sex pictures. When moms saw a man lurking around San Francisco’s Mountain Lake Park apparently taking cell phone pics of their kids, they leaped into action. That is, they took pictures [...]
April 1st, 2010 by Nathan | 5 Comments
I’m no militant on population replacement, but in general I think it would be swell if willing Americans had a kid or two. Somebody needs to pay for Social Security, and someone will need to change my diapers in a few years. That’s why I found my conversation a little depressing yesterday–even though it was [...]
February 4th, 2010 by Theodore | 3 Comments
From this week’s New Yorker, a funny one: Congratulations! The application on behalf of your child for a place in the pre-kindergarten class for the 2012-13 academic year at The School has been rejected. This permits you to begin the Type-A Parent Appeal Process. We think of it as just the kind of challenge that [...]