Yes, it’s been a while since my last post (don’t say I didn’t warn you). And yes, there’s much to report about that stretch, including a rundown of our trip to England, the baby’s foray into potty-training, and additional attacks on The New York Times Motherlode blog (read the comments).
But for now, I leave you [...]

It’s as if The New York Times has been overrun with new parents these days.
Last week, the paper ran that article about the impacts of cone-scan technology among pediatric dentists (I blogged about it earlier this week). Since then, the Gray Lady has published two other informative-yet-disturbing articles pertaining to the development of our children.
The [...]

Though our delivery boy neglected to bring us Sunday’s copy of The New York Times, a number of friends have tipped me to a story that ran in the Travel section about the growing movement to segregate families on airplanes or elminate them from some flights all together.
(The story’s headline, “Passengers Push for Child-Free Flights,” [...]

Parenthood certainly doesn’t get any easier.
This was the gist of a story in the Style section of Sunday’s edition of The New York Times. The story was about how mean-girl bullying is now rearing its ugly head in elementary school.
Essentially (after tons of exposition and—in my opinion—too many anecdotes), the story said kids (especially [...]

Another news flash from the self-promotion department: Yours truly had two more mentions of note out there on the Interwebs today.
The first was a guest post I wrote for iVillage.com; an essay (if you can call it that; the editors inexpliably hacked out a 250-word section) inspired by that Lithuanian dude who became a YouTube [...]

I am honored to be today’s guest blogger on the “Motherlode” blog at The New York Times. The subject of my post: A recent experience with L at the local toddler reading group.
I won’t give away the farm here, but here are the highlights:

• On the day L and I went to reading group, I was [...]

Psychologists and divorce attorneys know all too well about the “seven-year itch,” the phenomenon through which married people generally get sick of each other after seven years of matrimony.
But an essay this week on The New York Times “Motherlode” blog discusses a different kind of seven-year disillusionment: One with your kids.
The story, written by Alison [...]

We’re just back from a weekend with the family up in Murphys, but I wanted to post a link to a New York Times story from last week about new ways in which Proctor & Gamble and other baby-product manufacturers are marketing to dads. The story raises some interesting issues, especially considering that dad is [...]

L’s speaking abilities reached new heights on Tuesday, when she uttered a word I’ve been trying to get her to say from her very first weeks after birth.
No, the word was not “Daddy.” It was “Power.”
Let me explain. For me and a group of my friends, the word “Power” is the ultimate expression. It can [...]

Today’s Travel section of The New York Times (a client, by the way) boasted a long story by Matt Gross (a.k.a. “The Frugal Traveler”) about visiting San Francisco solo with his 13-month-old daughter.
Though I’m not a huge fan of Gross (he admits in the opening graf he can be “self-absorbed”), the story provided a handful [...]