When your soccer loving daughter becomes a referee, there’s definite money to be made. Twenty bucks a game for several games on a given weekend is way better pay than babysitting. So when she doesn’t want to ref anymore, you know that something serious is up. What could keep a teenage girl from scoring serious [...]
Summer’s in full swing. Friends and family are taking trips, my kids are on vacation with their mom, making this single parent dad a lone wolf reminiscing back to my best family vacations ever.
1. Santa Barbara Beach Vacation – my younger brother and I rented a house in Santa Barbara last year for our two [...]
I live hours from any family, so when my kids are with me it’s just me and them. (This is in sharp contrast to their mom who has parents, siblings, cousins, uncles, and aunts just minutes away.) Any time I get with my extended family is a treat, and Father’s Day weekend was no exception.
My [...]
When my daughter graduated 6th grade, she and her classmates were treated to a day in the park with classic summer camp games – balloon toss, three legged race, pass an orange down the line using just your neck and chin. Sort of like a labor day barbeque, except on a school day.
With 70 kids [...]
I woke up this morning tired, headachy, lacking any spark. Like having a bad hangover, except I didn’t drink. How did this weekend kick my ass so completely? I just sat around (in shorts, mind you, not Dockers). My kids did all the work.
Friday night was a talent show at my son’s elementary school. Cloggers, [...]
A few weeks ago I fired my cleaning lady, Julia. Maybe not the brightest thing for a single dad to do, especially with a teenage girl and preteen boy in the house. But Julia had expanded her business (thanks in part to referrals by me) and no longer personally cared for our home.
The new workers [...]
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, CBS radio, CNN.com, and McClatchy News syndication
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