December 2, 2010
When I wrote last week about Erica Jong’s essay on attachment parenting, a lot of people commented both here and elsewhere that one of the big problems in her article is that she confused attachment parenting with helicopter parenting. Certainly, the two are not the same. In fact, they belong on different axes altogether. While [...]
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March 9, 2010
My partner is a stay-at-home dad and he sometimes fills me in on the deep conversations he has during the day with our little girl. Ones like this: Emma: Daddy, what are you thinking about? Daddy: I’m thinking about putting the tiles on the backsplash. What are you thinking about? Emma: I’m always thinking about [...]
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