Tag Archives: Co-Parenting

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  Keeping dry the torches of evil passions: children and sexual purity

  I lost my virginity at nineteen. By modern standards that’s disturbingly puritanical.  It’s even more alarming when one considers that my sexual education was a fifteen-minute film during the 7th grade featuring animated penises and a cartoon vagina. This speedy entrance is nothing I’m overly ashamed of though I don’t shout it from the church [...]

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  Seven battles ever single parent must win – #1 Entitlement

  The Kübler-Ross model or as it’s commonly known The Five Stages of Grief says that individuals go through five distinct emotional states when faced with the reality of tragedy, most notably loss from death. These stages, denial, anger, bargaining, depression, and acceptance can occur in a predictable and logical order, randomly, or in other cases, [...]

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  Would you let you date your son?

  Earlier this year I wrote article entitled, Would you let you date your daughter? It turned out to be one of those proverbially stakes in the ground for any father of girls.  The title of the piece put forward a simple but powerful concept, would my actions and behaviors as a man, husband, and father [...]

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  My kids are boring.

  Until I was a teenager the nearest thing our family had to legit technology was a rotary dial telephone and a four-station television set – five stations if Fox was coming in good that day. If there was more savvy stuff available it hadn’t made it to the back forty yet or we couldn’t afford [...]

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  The secrets parents keep

  Wait until your father gets home! How many of us have vivid memories of that declaration levied in our direction after trying to stab our sister with a steak knife or inflicting $500 worth of lawnmower damage after the impromptu backyard tractor-pull. I was scientifically proven, in my 7th grade science class, to be 94.56% [...]

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  Letting my boy be a boy

  My father was a perfectionist or as close to one as I’ve ever known. He wasn’t OCD or anal retentive; he didn’t expect bath towels to be hung precisely  on the rack and cans of food to be stacked in the cabinet using a protractor. He never demanded my sister and I make straight A’s [...]

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  The memoir of a part time father

  Their things are packed in a forest of plastic grocery bags and hand-me-down purses strewn at the top of the stairs. Organization is a quality we regularly work on. I’ve always maintained a penchant for being on time whether I am the guest or the host and I’m slowly teaching my children the same skill. [...]

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