Rice Daddies
Posts on fatherhood that were also cross-posted to the Rice Daddies blog.
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Whenever the subject of Asian parents and discipline comes up, I think of Russell Peters’ skit about his dad and spankings. BigWOWO posted a reaction to Alfie Kohn’s article on “unconditional parenting.” As Daniel Willingham aptly points out, Alfie Kohn “has made a virtual industry out of finding interesting and provocative insights” on education and…
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[If you are going to see the movie Up and are the type of person who is sensitive to being told of plot elements ahead of time don’t read any further. Go see the movie, then come back, read and let me know if you agree or not.] The appeal of Up is its simplicity…
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I’m a sucker for Bruce Lee documentaries. Not because I am a kung fu practitioner or even a big fan of his movies. It’s because he took on the stereotypes of the Chinese in Western pop culture and won. The impact his fame has had on my personal life is awe inspiring. It’s not easy…
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Listen to this: http://www.wnyc.org/news/articles/128940 He has a point. Why don’t we call each other “people, people, and people” or address each other by our names? The question above closes Beth Fertig’s report featuring students attending the International High School in Prospect Heights, Brooklyn. She had asked the students to consider Amsterdam’s classification of all non-European…
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I’ve gotten into the habit of including a You Tube video in my posts to distract from the monotony of text. When it came to choosing a video for money, I found it harder than usual to decide on one video that would best accompany the post. I ended up selecting the Flying Lizards cover…
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Starting in elementary school, my sister and I got a dollar a week in allowance. It may not seem like much now but back then it was enough for two Spider-man comics or four Hershey’s bars or a large handful of Bazooka Joe bubble gum. I know because between us, my sister was the saver.…
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We should be able to look every second grader in the eye and say, ‘You’re on track, you’re going to be able to go to a good college, or you’re not,’ Right now, in too many states, quite frankly, we lie to children. We lie to them and we lie to their families. Where were…
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One of the reasons my wife and I decided to stay and raise our boys in Manhattan instead of joining the homesteaders in Westchester, New Jersey, or Connecticut is we are only 20 minutes away from a unique and engaging cultural event. However, finding the time to take advantage of these events is a different…
Vincent Young 