Exploiting My Baby : A Blog by Teresa Strasser

Today, I stopped home to change my outfit before picking up my kid from daycare. What, because you never know who might snap a photo as I lure my child into his car seat with the whispered promise of a Grover juice box? No one cares. Except now that I’m a parent, I care deeply [...]

  Coco is approached in a diner by a filmmaker who tells her he is casting a film he plans to shoot in the south of France. She goes to his apartment for a screen test, but there is no crew. And if you saw the movie “Fame,” this scene is as seared in your [...]

There’s a social contract when it comes to birthday parties for kids. You can’t just be a recurring guest, enjoying the bouncy houses, gift bags and balloon animals arranged and paid for by other parents. No, you have to reciprocate. Like it or not, there’s a kid pro quo.