Tag: fatherhood
group name: momsrising
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April 29, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
Last week I rated an invitation to a birthday party that, for the first time in six years, didn't involve a piñata. I got a call from a friend that has done pretty well for himself inviting . . . more
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June 07, 2008 09:48 AM EDT --
Sam is spending the night with John's parents tonight so he can go with them to a birthday party tomorrow down by where they live. We are flying out to Alaska. After the party, John's . . . more
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September 25, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
Serving alcohol at a kid's birthday party (to the adults, mostly)? An absolute requirement? A really bad idea? Both?
We're filming a segment on this topic in the DadLab Studio today. . . . more
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August 03, 2006 10:19 AM EDT --
The following excerpt was written by Ariel Gore, editor of several parenting books and the zine Hip Mama
Wunder Muther, Trendy Ma, Dancing Daddy-boy; everyday my post-office box fills with "cool parenting" . . . more
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June 03, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
I have decided, after careful consideration, to resign my post as the Chief Creative Officer of DadLabs.com in order to spend more time with my family. It has been my pleasure to serve, but I feel . . . more
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January 30, 2008 12:26 PM EST --
Day one was marked by a clear sense of unease, a nervousness just beneath the surface. I first picked up on this when I began dinner preparations. Coop, who usually busies himself with . . . more
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July 31, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
According to mainstream media, parenting is a bit like trying to carry an enormous cardboard box with nothing but a cannon ball in it: minor shifts precipitate a sudden problem. At the moment, the . . . more
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September 18, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
A significant watershed in my parenting life has been reached. Two of my kids have soccer games this weekend. At the same time.
I'll be with my oldest. I'm sure it will be a . . . more
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January 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
I took one look at the thing and sprained both ankles and fractured my tibia.
Because skateboards are not nearly unstable and dangerous enough, someone went ahead and invented the Ripstik . . . more
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December 03, 2007 10:46 PM EST --
When my oldest was entering Kindergarten, there was just one thing that I really wanted him to learn – not reading or math or social studies or science. Good values are fine and all, and . . . more
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February 04, 2008 06:08 PM EST --
The studies hailing the health and well-being benfits of family dinner are numerous. For children in the studies, frequent family dinners correlate with decreased alcohol, tobacco, drug use, eating . . . more
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September 05, 2007 07:34 AM EDT --
My oldest child, Wilson, sits in one of the two fighting chairs in the wide open stern of the Banshee with his fishing rod bent over, hauling up and reeling down, celebrating his ninth birthday. . . . more
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September 11, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
Nothing screams family and early childhood like Las Vegas. So I guess it is no surprise that the organizers of the ABC Kids Expo hold their annual trade show in Sin City. Every year, manufacturers . . . more
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January 15, 2007 06:38 PM EST --
Kylion cried as he watched his mother loaded onto the carriage and taken away. He watched intently as it turned around the corner, and just as suddenly, as the carriage disappeared Kylion . . . more
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August 29, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
Boy, has fatherhood changed, what with Start Over Dads or SODs (men over 50 starting second families), couples waiting later in life to have kids, working dads taking kids with them on the job, and that’s . . . more
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October 23, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
I sometimes wonder why I’ve kind of gone off the whole deep end with parenting – why I decided to leave a perfectly good teaching job for this whole goofy DadLabs interweb video show . . . . more
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November 06, 2007 11:20 PM EST --
Soccer let me have a couple of hours off Saturday morning to moderate a panel at the Texas Book Festival that went under the title "Father Knows Worst." On the panel: novelist Dominic . . . more
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November 20, 2007 02:39 PM EST --
One of my kids approaches me with a request. He or she knows that there is a range of possible outcomes, from getting ignored to getting referred to another adult to actually getting me off my butt . . . more
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November 28, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
On the always solid assumption that mild weather had settled in for good, my wife and I planned a short trip over Thanksgiving just down to San Antonio where we would meet my parents and my sister. . . . more
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January 14, 2008 03:25 PM EST --
Last week I read my son's report card, and it said to me, "You're working too much." The grades were down, not sharply, but noticeably. In her comments, his teacher tried to allay our . . . more
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