
The morning is a very busy time for me. I get up early to ride my bike so I can be back home in time to shower and get dressed before my twin 19 month-olds wake up. The morning provides […]
The Men's Magazine for Dads
The morning is a very busy time for me. I get up early to ride my bike so I can be back home in time to shower and get dressed before my twin 19 month-olds wake up. The morning provides […]
Oft-distributed guideline for 1950s housewives re-written for at-home dads If you’re a parent, there’s a good chance you’ve been emailed or passed along a copy of “The good wife’s guide.” The list is supposedly plucked from an issue of Housekeeping […]
Passing good values on to our children is something we strive for as parents. You want your kids to see the intrinsic worth in people regardless of appearance or belief. You want your kids to understand the importance of helping […]
When I was asked to write this article, I jumped at the opportunity. I am NOT a psychologist or a child education expert, but I am a father who fought very hard for time with my daughter. Spend the time […]
If you’re a new parent, like I once was, you’re likely to be asked to pronounce words that were never intended for everyday conversation. No, I’m not talking about variations on “poop”; I mean dinosaur names. Every academic specialization has […]
Fed up with all the commercialism of the season? If you’re looking for an alternative to re-direct your family’s attention, consider Giving Tuesday. I just learned about this new day from one of the participants, World Vision. They sent the […]
Over the summer, I was given a challenge by the folks at Dove Men + Care: write about what it means for a man to be comfortable in his own skin. I accepted the challenge, sure, but I didn’t know […]
I met Brittney (a pseudonym), an 18-year-old young girl, on the chairlift on May 31, 2011 at Mammoth Mountain. She wasn’t wearing a helmet and I gave her my usual helmet lecture (see “Parental Hypocrisy” column). She ended up sharing […]
35-year-old dad pens a letter to himself at age 18 Dear Howie, If my math is correct, it’s your first semester at college. You’re sweating out a philosophy course. And worried that flunking out will mean returning home and being […]
It’s hard for me to believe, but after writing more than one hundred “A Dad’s Point-of-View” columns, I’ve yet to tackle one of the biggest issues in families. It is one of the issues that causes more dissension among couples than […]
Want to give your kids that “raised in the city” experience without all of the risks of New York or LA? Rent.com evaluated the top 50 markets by rental inventory based on the cost of living, violent crime rate, and […]
Sunsets come and go in life, sometimes in the blink of an eye, until they blur into years. Now 45, I routinely find myself taking inventory of those years. I think – often strain – to remember the details of […]
It was a typical Friday afternoon in February and I was picking up my son Natan from Montessori school. Typical in that Natan was being about as talkative as the rocks of ice littering the driveways from last week’s snow […]
I took my twin ten-year-old sons to a couple of Angels games this week, and I was shocked—shocked!—to discover just how little they knew about baseball. I don’t mean to criticize my sons. They know an awful lot about things […]
Even picky eaters generally gobble up chicken nuggets. That’s been my experience. Though, my parenting has been confined to the continental U.S. I wondered recently what’s the “go-to” kid’s meal in other countries. I reached out to Emily Koziarski, a […]