Mad Dad Archives

The Opposite Of Nostalgia

What don't you miss from earlier stages of parenting?

These Things Passed, And I'm Damned Glad They Did...

Around our Girl Child, the big, bright here-and-now throws everything else into shadow. Either that, or I've got some kind of weird memory disease. But I am often struck by…  read on »

The Word-Size Queen

What happened to speaking simply to children?

That’s No Way To Talk To Your Baby

Blogging back to summer’s end … So close to Manhattan, you see vortexes of uptightness and bad mood all the time, but here is the terrible F5. Total destruction to…  read on »

Pater’s Plays

O mio babbino caro (from Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi) by Renée Fleming

Pops of love-struck teenagers will relate. A daughter works “dear little daddy” so he’ll let her marry a guy she’s crazy for. She gets cute, begs, threatens to throw herself in river, howls how it hurts. But very, very beautifully, no?

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Pater’s Picks

BAD KITTY Books by Nick Bruel

Bruel's brill books starring psycho cat has our seriously reluctant reader second-grader poring over the pages for half-hour stretches, even more, without threats…

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