Christopher Noxon
Christopher Noxon

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Parents urge kids to live on the wild side

On recent family trip to Denmark, wife and I loved how DANGEROUS everything was—perilous play equipment, no bike helmets, creaky amusement park rides. Got me thinking about sanctity of safety among parents at home and recent books that celebrate virtues of sketchy situations for kids…

Published by Reuters, August 27, 2008

Adventures in Family Air Travel

That dad with the hyper disruptive brats two rows back? I’m that guy. In this essay-as-desperate-apology, I try to make amends and imagine an airline geared specifically for families…

Published by Reuters, Aug. 12, 2008

Is Summer Camp Too Hokey?

I go out on a limb and make the following highly controversial, deeply provocative assertion: Summer Camp Rules.

Published by Reuters, July 29 2008

Is my son a dick, or is he two?

Expanded version of essay that was spiked by my wire service overlords (No poo talk allowed in Reuters world)… My son bullies me, insults his mother and once punched an old man in the nuts. I know it’s probably just a phase. But what if it isn’t? Check out the insane letters of response here.

Published by Salon, Sept. 8 2008

Health insurance for nanny a political, moral imperative

In which I get up on my high horse and rail against hypocritical liberals (who, me?) who criticize the government and corporations for withholding health insurance while allowing their own babysitters and nannies to fend for themselves… It’s time to pay up, people.

Published by Reuters, July 2, 2008

When treating kids like royalty has to stop

Commentary on how kids today are spoiled and coddled became a more limited but truthful account of how I spoil and coddle my kid.

Published by Reuters, June 18, 2008

I promise to love, cherish … and buy a minivan

How I learned to stop worrying and love my minivan.

Published by Reuters, June 3, 2008

Rats bring out the caveman in the modern dad

We had rats. I killed one. Read all about it.

Published by Reuters, May 19, 2008

Parents, unite! Ban birthday party blowouts

Latest Family Life column is parental call to arms to stop the madness around kiddie birthday parties. Si se puede!

Published by Reuters, May 5, 2008

Hear ye, hear ye! My parenting manifesto!

Family Life column on Parenting Manifestos, including a few self-evident foundational truths of my own…

Published by Reuters, April 23, 2008

Follow the Barfing Baby

Op-ed in the trade magazine Brandweek on why so much marketing aimed at not-quite-grownups misses the mark.

Published in Brandweek, April 14, 2008

Boys, Guns and the ‘Bang Bang Gene’

Family Life column for Reuters on boys, guns and the “bang bang gene.”

Published by Reuters, March 25, 2008

Fear Fuels Baby Business Boom

Latest Family Life column details my nightmares in babyproofing and the billion-dollar “mommy market.”

Published by Reuters, April 9, 2008

Dads Grapple With New Role: Tech Support

This week’s column wonders why being a dad today so often means being an IT guy.

Published by Retuers, March 11, 2008

An Inconvenient Truth - Kids Aren’t Perfect (No Duh)

Latest Reuters column, this one a dinner party anecdote about a hot babysitter wrapped up in depressing ruminations about the basic savagery and superficiality of human nature. Fun!

Published on Retuers, Feb. 26, 2008

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