The other morning I went into my teen daughter’s room at 6am, a human alarm clock waking her up for school. Only this day was different, special.
“It’s snowing,” I said.
What a magical thing for a parent to say to their kid! A snow day meant sledding and snow angels, snowball fights and snow men. And [...]
How do you get teenagers to the dinner table?
Sure, they’re hungry all the time. But that doesn’t mean they want to eat with dad or mom or siblings. After all, they have distractions – sports, friends, Facebook, iPod, video games, etc.
Some food gurus will have you believe the way to get teens to the dinner [...]
My son’s cell phone went through the laundry.
There, I said it. And no, it’s not easier to say simply because it happened at his mom’s house. What happened could have happened at my place or anywhere.
You see, his sister did the laundry, and she doesn’t normally do that chore. She dumped things in the washer [...]
My teen son decided to trick-or-treat this Halloween with a new group of friends. He’s in eighth grade and they’re in seventh, and I didn’t know any of these kids. When I dropped my son off, I made sure to go up to the house and meet the parents.
What do you know, there was a [...]
I showed up at a local Laser Tag place to pick up my son from a youth group outing. He was paling around with some boys a year younger than him. No one I knew. But they were excited to see me.
They came over to me, bowing, proclaiming: We’re not worthy!
“Did you invent Google?” one [...]
It’s the police!
That, a text message sent by my teen daughter, not twenty minutes after she left for astronomy class. WTF!?
Had she gotten into an accident? Was she pulled over for a driving offense? Did she get another parking ticket?
What’s going on? I texted back.
Silence.
I shifted into worried-dad overdrive. I figured I could drive to [...]
My kids and I were in Albuquerque this past weekend, attending the Balloon Festival. Yes, it was fun. (I’ll post pics and stories as soon as my daughter uploads photos from her camera.)
We were awake at 5am Saturday morning for the festival (which is 4am to our California bodies), and stayed up late Saturday night, [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, coparenting children, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
David Mott has appeared on ABC News Now video, CNN.com, CBS radio Los Angeles, Toronto Globe & Mail, McClatchy News syndication
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