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December 3rd, 2008
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News flash from Scotland – Miley Cyrus changed her mind about those nude Vanity Fair photos taken by acclaimed photographer Annie Leibovitz. Rather than saying it was a mistake for a fifteen year-old to be shot naked in satin sheets with a just had sex sort of look about her, she now says: “Everyone outside [...]
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December 2nd, 2008
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Over Thanksgiving Manhattan cocktails, my brother told a story from my daughter’s early childhood. Seems we were eating at Fish Market in Palo Alto, a restaurant where kids are given a handful of crayons to draw pictures, play hangman, and generally amuse themselves while dinner cooks.
The cool thing about this restaurant - rather than a [...]
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November 25th, 2008
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Flip Video Mino
Available at Amazon
When my son turned twelve, he begged for an iPod nano. The only problem – he wasn’t that into music! He asked for it mainly because his older sister and some of his friends each had one. So, I made an executive decision of the parental kind, and got him something [...]
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November 11th, 2008
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On Back to School Night this year, I asked out the teacher of one of my kids. Only problem – she’s engaged to be married. Oops! Readers weighed in saying:
I shouldn’t have pounced so quickly
I was now the talk of the teacher’s lounge
I had cajones
Recently a single dad stumbled upon that post, and wrote the [...]
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November 3rd, 2008
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We all go through stretches where we feel a little flat. Parents might fall into a rut where they spend too much time taking care of the kids and working to provide, and not enough time caring for themselves and connecting with others.
When I realized my mojo was gone, I took a few simple steps [...]
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October 21st, 2008
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My twelve-year-old son entered the kitchen the other morning with his shirt off, flexed an arm, pointed to his muscle and said, “Know where I got that? Wrestling.” He’s on the junior high wrestling team.
Not to be outdone, I set down my coffee cup, rolled back my shirt, flexed an arm, and pointed at my [...]
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October 16th, 2008
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Guest post by y.debra, a regular Dad’s House reader.
It was David’s post about his family room that helped me think through how temporary my life has seemed over the past year. As a divorced single Mom, there was always something that I had to figure out how to live with ‘just for a little while’ [...]