FEAR FACTOR
What parent, in a fit of desperation, has not been tempted to tell Junior that if he doesn’t stop fighting with his sister in the back seat right now, Dad might crash the car?
Andrew Bomback is the author of Long Days, Short Years: A Cultural History of Modern Parenting (MIT Press, August 2022). He is Associate Professor of Medicine at Columbia University Irving Medical Center and the author of Doctor. His essays have appeared in the Atlantic, Los Angeles Review of Books, McSweeney’s, and elsewhere.