Nannies: Not just for rich kids. The economics of childcare just SUCK. Especially in Manhattan. We found that it was cheaper to have a babysitter/nanny watch the two boys, than to send them both to daycare. And it was still really, really expensive. That semester the babysitter made more money that I did. 

Amazing instagram picture of the San Diego fireworks mishap. 

The snake fight portion of the dissertation defense. 

A weird story about a bad review in the New York Times.

What is the goal of parenting? I meant to write a longer blog post about this article, but never got to it this week.