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 [...]
It’s wrestling season in the middle school, and I watched a meet last night. My teen son quickly pinned his opponent. So fast, in fact, he looked up at the ref, wondering when the call would come. That one moment of lost focus was all it took for his opponent to waggle free – for [...]
My son came down with a fever this past weekend. Stuffy nose, tired, achy. He had a mixture of cold and flu symptoms. No fun for him, at all.
When Monday hit, he was still sick. No problem, I work from home. He could recuperate all day under my care.
Except for one thing – I was [...]
My wife and I were married for 9 years and had 2 children when we first talked about getting divorced. We’d already been through three different stints of couples counseling to address various issues. But some differences between us were irreconcilable, and we felt it was time to separate.
Ten months later, I moved out.
We lived [...]
Saturday was school beautification day, so my civic-minded son and his friend volunteered their afternoon weeding weeds and planting plants at their middle school.
Oh, and driving a golf cart.
Turns out most of the volunteers at the school beautification day were adults, so the handful of teens who showed up were given special treatment. (Not to [...]
My teen son plays trumpet in his middle school band. Last year, the band played popular music like the theme from Harry Potter, and Viva la Vida by Coldplay.
This year? They’ve gone classical, at least for the fall.
“We’re playing some Hungarian thing,” my son said.
“Hungarian Dance Number Five?” I asked.
“I think so.”
“That’s famous!”
My dad played [...]
A Dad’s House reader politely pointed out that I have it much easier as a divorced man who coparents with my ex, than a full time single dad. To wit:
I don’t mean to diminish what you do as a single dad, but you don’t do it alone. You have 1/2 custody and they have a [...]
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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