Daddy Dialectic

People don't complain about the fact that they will eventually die. The same is not true of taxes or the weather. Though immortality rem...

Pip and Polly are the proud inheritors of Ava’s childhood collection of 1980s Cabbage Patch dolls, and last week they decided to take each d...

At 3.75, there is a certain way of running on the cratered surface of playground wood chips, with arms bent at the elbows like the upper lim...

Last month, I posted an essay about Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success that provoked a lively discussion . Gladw...

My esteemed colleague at the Greater Good Science Center, executive director Christine Carter, posted two very nice summaries of research in...

So I was up in the tower of the multi-plex jungle gym, if that's what they're still called, surrounded by six little monkeys who had...

It was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and Spot and I were on the second floor of the Unitarian Church, in a sunny room full of toys...

There are essentially two piles of books in our household: Spot's pile and my pile. My wife reads mostly magazines and trade journals, a...

I enjoy reading Parenting magazine, about the same way I enjoy reading Cosmopolitan or sitting around kibitzing about the stuff of daily lif...

A new UK study suggests that stay-at-home dads hurt their sons' chances in school--but not their daughters'. "Our analysis poi...

A few days before my high school reunion, I was down on the rug, face to face with Spot, watching him execute his favorite pilates routine w...

Marjorie Taylor is a professor of psychology at the University of Oregon and an expert on imaginary friends. She read my August 27 post on ...

This photo depicts the J. Bates home in Minneapolis, Minnesota in the late 1800s. Note the size of the family and the size of the porch they...

My high-school friend introduced me to her 5-year old son the other day. Apart from the fact that he stood exactly 180 degrees facing the op...

At some point, I have to talk about Proust. I feel a deep sense of connection with the narrating character, so deep that I wonder if I can r...