Neal Pollack jokes that his dad dressed him in a Nixon onesie. He's on stage at SXSW, along with writer (and mom) Rebecca Wolf, trying to make sense of what's going on with the whole parent blogging craze. For him, it's even become semi-profitable (the only news flash of this post) and a nice way to rebel against 20 years of repression.
"I can't define what's going on exactly now," says Pollack, "but there's a parenting dissatisfaction and it's established itself online."
"Parents," he says, "don't want to give up their pre-cultural identity for their kids. You immediately feel irrelevant when you have a kid, and worry about being culturally useless." The solution, apparently, blog.
