February 2012
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“For parents, 10 p.m. is like midnight. It’s too late to start anything...”
– Three’s a Crowd - Chicago magazine (via ourmaninchicago)
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Awaiting his return from Costco with the muffins... →
January 2012
5 posts
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Don’t worry about the past Don’t worry about the future Don’t worry about growing up
An excerpt from a letter from F. Scott Fitzgerald to his daughter.
Watchcoketalk:
These types of shitheads are everywhere in my industry, and they are the bane of my fucking existence. One of them recently wormed her way up from the assistant level into my department, and I’ve spent the last couple weeks trying to teach her how to wipe her own ass.
I liked her well enough at first. She’s hot shit, barely old enough to drink, and loves telling everyone about her...
angela black: Crack a window. Raise your kids. →
angelablack:
Do you ever hear someone say something so completely off the cuff and yet so succinctly perfect that you find it popping into your head again and again making you giggle over it at random a day or two later?
That’s how I feel about the line above. It’s just a quick throwaway comment by my pal
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On blueberries in January
Mira: Where did Grandma get all that fruit?
Me: From the store.
Mira: I know! The people who live where it's warmer must have grown the fruit that we can't get here because it's too cold in the winter, and they bring it up to us to be kind so we can have nice fruit when it's winter.
Me: Exactly.
The Parable of the Talents →
pegobry:
When we began the process of getting Michèle baptized, our parish handed us a tiny booklet of recommended readings for the ceremony.
We decided we wanted the readings to address Michèle as an adult, and so the reading we chose wasn’t in the booklet, it was the Parable of the Talents.
I often mention the Parable of the Talents because, in Europe at least, the economic morass has...
The lamentations of the father
And if you are seated in your high chair, or in a chair such as a greater person might use, keep your legs and feet below you as they were. Neither raise up your knees, nor place your feet upon the table, for that is an abomination to me. Yes, even when you have an interesting bandage to show, your feet upon the table are an abomination, and worthy of rebuke. Drink your milk as it is given you,...
September 2011
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“It’s true that men today are more likely than their fathers and grandfathers to...”
– Opinion columnist Jessica Valenti argues that moms need to ditch the guilt and get Dad more involved. (via thedailyfeed)
August 2011
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“On a recent National Public Radio program, Steven D. Levitt, a professor of...”
– Children’s Activities No Guarantee of Later Success - NYTimes.com (via mlherold)
On the one hand, I’m a firm believer in parenting less and a strong opponent of “helicopter parenting.” (Maybe I favor “Predator drone parenting”? Stay out of sight but not out of mind, keep an eye on things, limit...
July 2011
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“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via Ta-Nehisi Coates)
June 2011
4 posts
in the fade: how to alienate your children in just... →
inthefade:
Make sure you are completely judgmental of everything they do. Question them, question their motives, ask them if they are doing things you wouldn’t do just to hurt you. Make it all about you. Tell them you believe their lifestyle choices, their political affiliations, their clothes, the music…
“It’s funny—in life, those roles have all changed. There’s a lot of fathers who...”
– Louis C.K. interview (via pegobry)
“No, this is boring time with daddy, just the same as everything.” Perfect.
Amen sandwich.
April 2011
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“Have More Kids. Pay Less Attention to Them.”
– Bryan Caplan wrote a big article to support this assertion but, really, there’s no need to. (via pegobry)
“The obvious lesson to draw is that parents should lighten up. I call it “Serenity Parenting”: Parents need the serenity to accept the things they cannot change, the courage to change...
“Men who change diapers or otherwise deal with the minutiae of parenting should...”
– Jessica Valenti, on why we need to start treating fathers like the parenting partners they are. Read her op-ed, “Daddy Issues.” (via thedailyfeed)
AMEN. (via pegobry)
March 2011
1 post
A Glass Half-Full of Pessimism: They need to... →
luckyshirt:
As of about 7 pm, I was dead to the world tonight. For a lot of reasons, I am very, very tired.
At about 8 pm, my daughter started throwing up.
I was collapsed fully clothed on my bed when she whimpered for me. I zombied into her room in the dark and asked her what was up. When she told me, it…
January 2011
3 posts
We're going to make a lot of parenting mistakes
tomyhusband:
Let’s not make putting leashes on our children when we go to the mall one of them.
Parenting Lesson 8
1. Hollow out a melon.
2. Make a small hole in the side.
3. Suspend it from the ceiling and swing it from side to side.
4. Now get a bowl of soggy Cheerios and attempt to spoon them into the swaying melon by pretending to be an airplane.
5. Continue until half the Cheerios are gone.
6. Tip half into your lap. The other half, just throw up in the air.
Parenting Lesson 1
1. Go to the grocery store.
2. Arrange to have your salary paid directly to their head office.
3. Go home.
4. Pick up the paper.
5. Read it for the last time.
December 2010
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There is nothing more perfect and true and kind than a very curious and earnest child.
November 2010
4 posts
Modern Parenting →
You know the child I am talking about: precious, wide-eyed, over-cared-for, fussy, in a beautiful sweater, or a carefully hipsterish T-shirt. Have we done him a favour by protecting him from everything, from dirt and dust and violence and sugar and boredom and egg whites and mean children who steal his plastic dinosaurs, from, in short, the everyday banging-up of the universe? The wooden toys...
No. 3
Doctors say the third one is due in late March. And is a boy. That is all.
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"I want to get to that poop before it dries."
October 2010
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September 2010
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“Who made the bathwater disgusting? That’s right, the baby. The bathwater was...”
– Andy Borowitz: The Good Enough Baby : The New Yorker (via themorningnews)
“Despite all the media hype about babies, they’re loud, dumb, and grimy to the touch, just one rung on the evolutionary ladder above a common marmoset.”
August 2010
2 posts
I've heard it said that having a child in your...
indefensible:
That didn’t make me want kids, but hooboy I want to get a midget drunk.
I would say one child equals several drunken midgets.
July 2010
5 posts
“I can’t drink milk. It makes me pee my pants.”
– Mira’s friend Camilla, in re: lunch at today’s playdate. I feel the same way about tequila, kid. Bad news.
“Is it a holiday?”
– Mira, seeing the Josef Frank illustration on Google today
All Joy and No Fun →
brilliantorange:
You guys! In this issue of New York Caucasian Magazine, there is an article that lets you know that parenting is hard work, and as a result, sometimes you do not have the happy pants on! There is much of the SADFACE and OH NOES I WENT TO COLLEGE FOR THIS? Also, sometimes you are very, very tired. And sad.
Swim lessons at the rec center
Mira: Go through these doors, then turn left.
Becky: Why are you giving me directions? We were just here this morning.
Mira: I'm pretending you've never been here before!
More fatherly advice from Todd
inthefade:
To my daughter, as she was headed out to a party:
“Just remember when you are running from the cops that you don’t have to be the fastest, you just have to be faster than your fattest friend.”
June 2010
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