There’s been a lot of fuss lately made over “dad blogger” Chris Bernholdt’s cockamamie scheme to, as he puts it: “BANISH THE PLAYDATE.” In Bernholdt’s world of make believe, kids would use “rotary phones” to “spontaneously” “play” with their “friends.” And they would climb something called a “tree.” WITHOUT ADULT […]
I’ve been at this parenting game for a while now. Not as long as my wise sage of a dear pal, Jim Higley, mind you, but long enough to have accumulated quite a bit of dirt beneath my parental fingernails, which have been painted numerous times and in a variety […]
The week of July 7th, it turns out, is when the big red button was pushed. Somewhere, maybe in a boardroom, or in a committee pre-meeting about the actual meeting but before the follow-up meeting to discuss what was discussed during that very same meeting, or possibly in a sterile, […]
Today isn’t a great day for women in the United States. The Hobby Lobby and the Supreme Court proved once again that corporations and big business and (some) religions are valued more than a woman, her rights, her body, and her life. To counteract that heaping pile of anti-feminine shit […]
There are many parallels between the FIFA World Cup and parenting life. Here are 8 ways the World Cup and parenting are exactly alike. Yes, diving is involved. 1) BORING BUT BEAUTIFUL There is a lot of what outsiders would deem mundane activity, boring stuff, but what good parents and […]
In a groundbreaking new partnership with Arizona State University, Starbucks will soon begin to offer every single employee working at least 20 hours a week a free online college education. The Starbucks free college education benefit is available the moment an employee is hired and is designed to help their […]
A man, upon becoming a dad, should, if he possess a glimmer of inherent paternal wisdom and/or any capacity for human emotion at all, will soon, if not immediately, embrace everything about fatherhood, parenthood and childhood; every giggle, smile, tear, water gun soaking, muddy-kneed pair of sweatpants, oft-missing sparkly headband, […]
We had a sex talk plan. That plan was to wait. Wait until 4th grade was over. Wait until the summer break between 4th and 5th grade arrived. Wait until we could have the reproductive health, er, sex talk with the Bear at a leisurely pace and without any nuggets […]
