I’m known to do it. And I do it often. When there is a certain something that must be done — gutters that need cleaning, a long drive that needs, um, driving — I execute. It doesn’t matter that I haven’t the strength or the stamina, my body gives it […]
The Golden Age of Family Music is a nifty term. I coined it, and I toss it around freely, in interviews, on the podcast, in stories published on Red Tricycle, Time Out New York Kids, and Philly Kids Thing. The Golden Age of Family Music represents the maturation of music […]
A piece I wrote on the touchy subject of video game violence and its impact on children and families was published on The Good Men Project today, and then was quickly moved over and is being featured right now Headline News / HLN’s Raising America show page. My article is […]
I was a guest on a segment of HuffPost Live yesterday discussing my ideas about ways a parent/grandparent/guardian might better invest in a child than merely saving money for their college education. The 1/2-hour discussion was lively and engaging, although it too often veered away from my focus on this […]
[Standing Ovation] I heard buzz tonight of a great new commercial from Chris at Daddy Doctrines. He, like me and many other dad bloggers, get all tingly-like when a major brand portrays us (us as in modern dads, a collective group of non-neanderthals who have spawned at least one child) […]
I loves me some Heidi Swedberg. The Ukulele Princess is one of the sweetest and most hilarious people I know, and she makes some pretty damn fine music for families too. Swedberg is hard at work finishing her new album, but is allowing me to share this hot-off-the-stove track with […]
Thanks to the relative controversialality (made-up word) of my case against college savings, I have made it onto The Huffington Post frontpage. Surely CNN, Headline News, The New York Times, and The White House aren’t far behind. You read OWTK, so you’ve read it already, but would you fancy reading […]
Let’s start with two stories. I was keeping score, a phrase that you’ll soon discover deserves serious air quotes, at my nephew’s basketball game. He was maybe 8, the age of my oldest daughter now. One of the teams, I don’t know if it was his or not, was getting […]
