parenting

  • Blackface Should Not Be Part of Your Halloween Costume

    Blackface Should Not Be Part of Your Halloween Costume

    As you start to help your kids plan their Halloween costumes (for whatever Halloween looks like this year), and as you start to plan your own costumes for any adult festivities you partake in, here’s our yearly reminder that blackface is never, ever ok. You — and your kids — can dress up as LeBron…


  • Do Something Actually Fun With Your Kids

    Do Something Actually Fun With Your Kids

    Every morning I awaken to the same question: “Daddy, will you play with me?” (I mean “awaken to” to be taken literally here; usually this question is posed loudly to me by a three-year-old hovering several centimetres away from my sleeping face.) And, though I am not proud to admit it, my answer to this…


  • How To Introduce Your Kid To Star Wars

    How To Introduce Your Kid To Star Wars

    Unless you live in a pop culture bell jar, your child will be introduced to Star Wars. George Lucas’s space opera has so thoroughly and efficiently saturated the entertainment-sphere, Star Wars indoctrination is as inevitable as exposure to cold germs at daycare. You can let fate, cultural osmosis, and Disney marketing executives control when and…


  • Kids Home From School? Plant A Garden!

    Now that COVID-19 has shut a lot of things down, we all need ways of dealing with the stress of what might happen, while all of our usual coping mechanisms are gone. This is doubly true for parents with kids, with some schools and daycares being closed, the playground is no longer safe, and playdates…