I have a feeling the review of Neal Pollack’s new book was dead-on [“Alternative to What?” January 19], but the description of the negative response to his 2005 Salon article about his son’s expulsion from preschool for biting was less so. You wrote that the vitriolic (and it was) response was because he sent his son to day care and was “insufficiently sorrowful about it,” which doesn’t tell the whole story. The problem for many readers like myself who sent e-mails with negative responses to the article was not the child in day care. I am an at-home mom with a toddler I send out of the house multiple days a week, and I am downright gleeful about it–it’s good for him and me. I am also immensely sympathetic to parents whose kids are anything less than cherubic and the shit we take when we dare to complain a little or have lives.
