How to land your kids in therapy.
A really fantastic, insightful article on how well-meaning, informed, supportive parents are fucking up their kids just as badly as the inattentive, shitty ones.
Scenes from the future.
Someone with a handicam and a time machine brought us this little piece of the future. Specifically the Hutchinson household two kids in.
A 3-year-old's sad reaction to Michael Young asking to be traded from the Rangers.
So good. I died at the 40-second mark.
Parents! Soon to be parents!..
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6-year-old Colorado boy floats away in balloon
Holy Crap! Tune in to the live feed of CNN right now!
Some kid got into a large helium balloon and is floating away.
Bringing your goddam kids into the office
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seventh grader steals her teacher's car
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Attn: Scrabblers (well... most of you)
Please start breeding. I just found out the dumbest person I’ve ever known is pregnant. I don’t want my children to grow up in an Idiocracy future. Start having kids, please.
School
So I just finished my first “week” at my new teacher job at a Jersey City middle school (it was 3 half-days). I’ve put myself through quite the emotional rollercoaster: one anxious night of sleep; reflective meaning of life questions on the Hudson; and endless over-planning. But after class today, I felt so positively happy, I couldn’t believe it.
Some of my students have already expressed the fact that they both a) have fun in my class and b) are trying hard to follow the rules for me. This is overall much more fulfilling for me personally.
Child Abuse or Good Parenting?
A mother’s explanation of why she lets her 9-year old ride the subway alone. I’m leaning towards Good Parenting, but I haven’t thought it out much and I’m curious to see what you all think.
