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November 16th, 2009
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My 17-year-old daughter is an angel! So are her friends!! They are super nice kids!
Or so we’ve always thought.
Now her brother and I are wondering if she’s a little devil, and we’ve been sheltering one of the mean kids all these years.
My son was recently cleaning out his closet (not voluntarily; I made him do [...]
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February 11th, 2009
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My twelve-year-old son had a crappy week last week. He got into some trouble at school. He caught a cold (probably stress related, due to the trouble.) And because he missed lacrosse tryouts due to another commitment, he was relegated to the B team.
Ugh.
When a preteen kid’s esteem is in the shitter, there’s not a [...]
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November 18th, 2008
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Dad’s House is venturing into a sensitive topic today: sexual abuse. A blogger at the New Jersey Moms Blog wrote a piece titled The Sexual Abuse of a Liar. In it, she tells a painful story of childhood sexual abuse by a step-brother. I admire the author’s courage for sharing about the horrors she [...]
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July 22nd, 2008
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Barf.
Vomit.
Toss cookies.
Throw up.
When too much good stuff (not to be confused with good food) goes into a twelve-year-old boy’s tummy, the result is easily guessed. Come join me as I wheel my Dad’s House mobile home over to the Silicon Valley Moms Blog today, and you can find out what really happened on our vacation.
By [...]
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May 28th, 2008
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Two weeks ago I checked the online homework message board for my son’s sixth grade class and saw a curious thing – plans for a field trip the next day to the Monterey Bay Aquarium. This was news to me.
Granted, my son lives in two homes and sometimes Friday Folder messages end up at the [...]
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April 24th, 2008
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My twelve-year-old son and his friends are showing a nascent interest in financial planning. They want to do more with their money than simply save up for the next new skateboard deck. And so I tried teaching them about investment risk.
I told them about interest-bearing savings accounts and certificates of deposit. I explained the basics [...]