Remember, men have been negotiating this sensitive period for millions
of years, and with this guide, you may be the first one in history to
make it through without a severe tongue-lashing or worse. The odds are
monumentally against you, but it

As I ate my cold k-ration beany weenies last night (hey, I LIKE beany weenies), I ruminated on my last post. All told, what’s it really like to be A Man Called Da-da, or a parent in general? It’s like being in combat, that’s what. Take this little test…

I almost blew it. I had just gotten focused on my workload for the day, with about 8 things I REALLY needed to get done before the end of the day. Just as I was getting started, my 8-year-old daughter walked into my office, having just finished her shower, her hair still wet, and wearing [...]

This topic is so obvious yet I have yet to write about it. It may be partly because it is so close to home, for my boys.  I was blessed to have my mother and father in my life completely and lovingly, until they died in recent years (at 89 and 90).  They loved me, [...]

Parenting can sound repetetive. Here’s a list of some of the things I say every day. I took the time to listen to myself recently and realized rather quickly I say the same things every day. I’m basically a broken record of reminders, corrections and tired incentives. Some call it nagging, but I prefer to [...]

Dad, do you ever get scared? I remember asking my father that question one evening before bedtime.  My world was scary even without the constant news of inflation and the threat of nuclear war with the now-dead Soviet Union.  I had an upcoming test for which I hadn’t studied and there was a Neanderthal who [...]

We live in a time when so many of our kids are in childcare, and while there is a modicum of research that tells us that childcare is not detrimental to our children, it is well known that the people who care for our children can have a profound influence on our children for the [...]

One of the greatest lessons I’ve learned through my years of school, practice, consulting, writing, and speaking is that there is no right answer to the wrong question.  This lesson is also one of the biggest frustrations because people, the media, and medicine takes that wrong answer and runs with it. One example for you [...]

After reading the article entitled “Top Ten Dad Tips for Getting Laid”, I thought it best to give some tips from a wife’s point of view. Armed with tips from both of us, you just might get lucky.
Remember – Moms / wives aren’t made of stone,…

Teen energy, angst, and anger manifest itself in so many ways. Every day it seems that we read about some teen that has done something unusually self-destructive, and occasionally destructive to others. Columbine was an extreme example of this.  Many so-called “normal” teens tend to use or abuse the ol’ standbys of drinking, drugs, and [...]