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Nathaniel has been sent home from daycare again, with suspected hand foot and mouth disease (aka coxsackie). As you may recall , he had this...

It's a cliche to say that becoming a parent changes your politics. But maybe not in the same way for everyone. Parenting, I think, ampli...

Yesterday, I was informed that the Lewis & Clark Law School faculty had voted to grant me tenure. Also this week, Nathaniel's presch...

Nathaniel is in daycare, and I have a cold. This is a sentence that is true today, was true the first week we sent Nathaniel to daycare, and...

  Nathaniel had a milestone this week: his first toy that he's absolutely petrified of. The toy in question, a birthday gift from his un...

One of the strangest aspects of parenthood that they don't really tell you about is the fear. Once you have a baby, you're always ju...

Nathaniel had his first day of daycare today! As is typical of these things, it was harder on mom and dad (mostly dad) than baby. Nathaniel ...

Nathaniel is feeling under the weather. He has a cough, which he caught from me, and before I go any further, he's fine. In fact, he...

I've sometimes joked that parenting a baby is basically a cargo cult. They take one extra-long nap with their arms grasping the crib bar...

I had one of those deep/dumb epiphanies the other day. Raising a baby is really a commentary on the human existence and how we relate to the...

It is another day of milestones for Nathaniel. First of all, we put him in a front-facing stroller seat for the first time. I already miss b...

What's new in the world? Boooo! What's new with my adorable baby? Yaaaay! Here are some of the latest developments on the Nathaniel ...

A few evenings ago, Jill was awakened in the middle of the night because someone spit up all over the bedsheets in their sleep. That someone...

Today is a pretty big day. For starters, it's my blog's birthday ! It is a whopping 25 years old today, with over 7,400 posts. That...

    Nathaniel turned four months old last week. And I’m already a proud papa. Of course, he isn’t really  doing that much right now. But why...

Last night, I saw a mouse in my house. It was around 3 AM, and I was finishing up my overnight parenting shift (I cover bedtime to 3 AM; Jil...

The other day, Jill and I were playing a common game with our baby -- telling him all the different things he could be when he grows up. ...

Today was our baby's two-month checkup, and that included a suite of vaccination shots. It was not fun. We have a remarkably mellow and ...

It is hard for me to see a picture of Kfir Bibas and not see my baby. The news that Kfir Bibas and his family were murdered by Hamas  is, of...

My baby is one month old today. At one month, he doesn't do much. One month is too young to crawl or sit up or babble. He doesn't ev...