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THE FATHER LIFE

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Posts Tagged ‘summer’

You Should Be a Host Family for the Fresh Air Fund

By Ben Martin • Feb 14th, 2010 • Category: Fatherhood

Do you remember summer vacation?  I’m not talking about the trip you took with the family last year.  I’m talking about that break from school you could look forward to every year from Kindergarten though high school.  Long days, the occasional family trip, and nearly absolute freedom.  It was incredible, right?  Give anything to have [...]



Summer School: Lessons Learned by a First Time SAHD

By Daniel Garcia • Sep 1st, 2009 • Category: Fatherhood

As school is starting and the house is without the noise of kids running around, I had the chance to reflect on the summer and what we did.  I never thought I would have the feelings I had when the kids left for school, but never the less I had them!  I’m not going to [...]



Tattoo Camp, Anyone?
Summer’s Not So Lazy Anymore

By Paul Banas • Jul 9th, 2009 • Category: Cover Story, Fatherhood

Bring on those lazy, hazy crazy days of summer. Those days of pretzels and beer. Or, in our household, an interminable season lacking the discipline and order that normally keeps our sanity intact from September to the end of the school year.
Suddenly, in June, the kids are there at breakfast, and still there at 8:15.  [...]