An Easter Monday-not-April-Fools post

There's a certain branch of Judaism that consists of one principle (no, principal! thank you commenter-copy-editing) tenet: the non-cele...

Goes around, comes around

Maybe these things are cyclical, because this doesn't feel entirely new, but it seems we've rediscovered that middle school is awful...

Middle school and the neurosis of narcissism

As I sit waiting for commenter Caryatis's mystery " suggestion  about" my "writing style" (about which I'm of co...

I had one more beauty-post in me yet!

-Autumn is back at The Beheld, I'm back just at WWPD. That was an exciting guest-blogging stint, and I'm so grateful to Autumn for t...

"Orders which must be obeyed"*

The best article ever: Kate Connolly of the Guardian reports on a coffee shop in Berlin that has banned, among other things, strollers: Ral...

A feminist case for teachers' unions

The Internet is  split over whether liberals/progressives should support the Chicago teachers’ strike. The pro-strike side has the mo...

Sick as a dog

Profundity may be even lower than usual here, what with Bisou's predictable-in-retrospect stomach woes. Sniffing around on enough sidewa...

Grows on trees

It's now accepted wisdom that modern children's ignorance as to where their food comes from is something in desperate need of a rem...

An only modestly outrageous proposal UPDATED

WWPD's legislative branch proposes the following: a law that would restrict what parents can write online or publish about their own chi...

Wax nostalgic

A Styles masterpiece, in keeping with the theme of the post below: a story about how girls - young ones! pre-high-school! - are now getting...

"The findings stated that 90per cent of Manhattan children are spoiled while 67per cent of children living in Brooklyn are as well."

It's official: children in New York are the most spoiled in America. Must be, because it says so in the Daily Mail. Measured by how muc...

How civilizations end UPDATED

-At their new Manhattan branch, Montreal-themed Brooklyn deli Mile End lets you order an $18 deluxe sandwich platter to stay, but doesn'...

Middle-school followers

I've written here before that I think one thing repelling many from the (primary and secondary) teaching profession is the expectation ...

The height of philanthropy

-There was a girl in my high school class whose stomach really did go in, or at least not poke out, even when she sat down. Perfect skin and...

Annals of the useless

Asking a 15-year-old actress how she gets such shiny hair, which lip balm she prefers, and what she does for exercise. Really, NYT? Some te...

Hags

Yet again , the question of very young (think too young for middle school) fashion models is  phrased in Think of the Children terms. Guar...

Where every teacher is above average

Teaching (as in, elementary-though-high-school), like any other profession, has pros and cons. Summers off! Low pay. A chance to shape the m...