Author: Backpacking Dad

I took a call from one of my mom friends today (aside: took a call? really? ought I to have had my assistant check to see if I was available?) and she told me that Barenaked Ladies were promoting their Snacktime CD at the Barnes & Noble at the Hillsdale shopping center. Sweet. Sweet because…

Something MereCat said in response to my sign language post has really stuck with me for the last couple of days. My kids will know some French and they will know some of a lot of other things. I’m going for well-rounded here. I think I agree with the idea that knowing "some of a…

My perspective is bound to be skewed. I don’t meet a lot of dads, except through their wives, hurriedly, between bites of some kind of skewered meat at a birthday party. So I don’t know how other dads feel about trying to teach an infant another language. It’s pretty clear that there is a powerful…