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 […]
Big Brown Eyes Looking Up At Me
The Good SAHD’s Guide
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 […]
Teaching the value of giving… through prom!
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 […]
5 Essential Tips For Newly Divorced Dads
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 […]
Warm Up Your Tongue: Here Come the Dinosaur Names
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 […]
Move Over Black Friday, Hello Giving Tuesday
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 […]
Comfortable in my own skin? Yeah, right.
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 […]
Interviewing Brittney
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 […]
Dear 18-year-old self
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 […]
Money, Money, Money
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 […]
Top 10 Family-Friendly Metropolitan Areas
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 […]
Baylor’s Bat
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 […]
Would Maria Montessori Have Approved? Technology for Montessori Teachers
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 […]
A Dad Strikes Out
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 […]
What’s the international equivalent of the chicken nugget?
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 […]