It was middle of the fourth inning and the boy wanted to get up and walk, and I didn’t complain. I might have preferred to sit and watch the game, but hey - that he sat through 3 1/2 innings without complaing I’m bored or wanting to go hang out on around the play area […]

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And if you’ve got kids, I’m thinking you’ll just understand.

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Mom in NYC lets her 9-year-old find his way home via the subway. Would you do it? Not in a thousand million years.

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Had seen this piece over a Reason Magazine linked a couple of places yesterday, and it resonated. I happen to know, for whatever reason, quite a few couples who don’t have kids and who don’t plan on having kids. One couple, in their 50s, never really tried - nor tried not to. “It just didn’t happen,” […]

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Cool story, and reaffirming for those who have kids and might do the same thing:
Jane Hambleton, 48, gained a worshipful parental following when news of a classified ad she’d placed in the Des Moines Register was picked up by the Associated Press. The text of the ad:
“OLDS 1999 Intrigue. Totally uncool parents who obviously don’t […]

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Nice. And we wonder why.
A shrink goes to see Rob Zombie’s remake of “Halloween.” But the scariest thing he sees isn’t on the screen.

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