„Oh!“ „Congratulations!“ „Next step: new york times Crossword puzzle! „
I started receiving such texts on Fridays after achieving what we would call modern immortality. clues about danger!.
The category was „perspective“ and the hint was as follows. „Lenore Skenazy, who wrote about taking her 9-year-old on the New York subway alone, transitioned from raising chickens to raising children this season.''
If you don't know the answer, there's a hint at the top of this article.
So how can a person become? danger! clue? it's simple. Just have your child do something that the world considers dangerous, and then write: column About why the world is wrong. Then I wrote a few more columns about it, All kinds of talk shows To protect yourself, and respectfully accept nicknames.America's worst mom.”
Then start a blog about the issue, give it a catchy name, and manage to trademark the name ( Dale SendariAmerica's top intellectual property lawyer and a dear friend of mine since college), and write a book with the same title. Then you have to speak at about a million schools as well as giant companies like Microsoft and DreamWorks. Perhaps most importantly, please write to Matt Welch at: reasonsuddenly offers himself as a columnist.
In fact, I recently rediscovered that first letter. reason,started:
Hello Matt!
Looking through all the topics on the Reason blog (which are always interesting), there's one that doesn't get much coverage. That is „child-rearing“. Yet, where I found you and the entire libertarian movement was by looking at parenting.
I was angry when I learned about parents who were arrested for letting their children go. wait in the caror walk to the pizza shopor play in the park. I couldn't believe some childcare workers had to do that. Check your sleeping baby every 15 minutes Record your sleeping position.I heard it from a teacher who had to fill it out. hazardous materials report For each different brand of baby wipes and dish soap in the classroom.And I still don't understand Drop side crib recall — or many of the CPSC movements ( This one (against flowered sandals). And of course, I hear about almost every zero-tolerance travesty in this country, often days before the mainstream media makes a fuss about it. And it goes without saying that So-called „safety precautions“„It started happening after Sandy Hook, the insane and incomprehensible background checks that are now required of school volunteers. I wrote about them in Monday's Wall Street Journal.. )
So if you want to join danger!—danger!mastersin reality, has contestants answer the clues correctly, dedicate some 16 years to one particular topic and all its bizarre and infuriating effects, become the world's leading expert on that topic, and write the following article: write. reason!