My thirteen-year-old son and I got a weekend to ourselves when my daughter and her mom took a short trip together. Father-son time like that doesn’t happen nearly enough for a divorced single dad like me, just as the mother-daughter time is precious for my ex. Usually, if I have the kids, I have them [...]
As a single parent who’s been divorced and co-parenting for ten years, I get asked fairly often about children and divorce:
How did my ex wife and I tell our children we were getting divorced?
How did our kids respond to the divorce news?
How have our children coped since the divorce?
I’m a divorced parent with some experience. [...]
WARNING: this post may contain TMI and other bodily waste tidbits that are way beyond anything you want to read.
Then again, it’s not much worse than anything in Angela’s Ashes. So suck it up, gentle reader, and read on.
The other day my toilets backed up. Both of them were near overflowing. Like a good home [...]
Romantic Valentine’s Day ideas aren’t even on my radar this year, but I still have a place in my heart for a certain special someone (or two) .
No, I’m not talking about hot French women.
For some odd reason, I really like old people.
Even the ones who get in my way, taking forever to do whatever [...]
I’ve been a single parent for ten years now, and I take great pride in taking an active role in both my kids’ lives. Besides taking care of them at home, cooking, cleaning, talking to them about sex – I’ve also volunteered in their classrooms, coached a few sports teams, and helped with other activities.
So [...]
Should parents compete with each other to ensure the best for their own kids?
Or work together to make a great community for all children?
I’ve been a parent in Silicon Valley for nearly 18 years, and it’s shocking to me how competitive some parents are.
Today, Dad’s House takes a look at competitve and cooperative parenting styles. [...]
On trash pickup days, we put our recyclable materials in curbside bins: glass bottles, plastic bottles, tin and aluminum cans. The garbage company hauls them all away for recycling.
“Do we get the CRV?” my teen son asked.
California Redemption Value is a nickel for small bottles and containers, and a dime for big ones.
“No, we just [...]
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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