I recently saw The Boys are Back, a movie starring Clive Owen (who gave an outstanding performance), about a single dad who gets in way over his head trying to raise two boys after his wife suddenly passes away.
The film is at times sweet and sentimental, and other times wild and overreaching. It gives a [...]
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 [...]
As a single dad on the dating scene, I can totally relate to my teens as they date. I know full well that romantic relations can be equal parts madness and bliss.
What’s an old guy like me to do with all that dating wisdom? Impart it to my kids, of course!
Head over to the [...]
My daughter’s high school cross country team is one of the best in the area, and my daughter is lucky enough to be running with them this year. She’s played soccer for ages, and run track for years, so she’s in great shape. But her cross country team workouts are on killer hills, and she [...]
Our local junior college has an astronomy class with a reputation for being very good. The school has a decent-sized telescope, and the instructor co-wrote the textbook they use. He’s not quite Carl Sagan (“billions and billions of stars in the universe…”), but might be close. People of all ages flock to his class.
With my [...]
My thirteen-year-old son is playing soccer this fall, and let’s just say it’s been an eye opener for me. I know from watching Italian Serie A, as well as my daughter’s high school varsity team, that soccer is a contact sport. There’s plenty of body to body contact when going for headers or protecting the [...]
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 [...]
David Mott is a divorced single father of a teen daughter and son offering stories, tips and opinions on single parenting, two-home families, cooking, cocktails, self awareness - and relationships formed in an age of online dating, text messaging, and booty calls.
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