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Cool Parent Points

Posted on November 19th, 2009 | 8 comments

Cool Parent points.
If you’re a parent, you know what those are.
You earn them when your kids don’t think you’re a nerd, geek, or life-ruining jerk.
i.e., you do something cool.
Seems a few parents in the parenting blogosphere have been scoring cool parent points lately, moi included.
Put on your sunglasses and look way cool as you head [...]

My Sexy Daughter

Posted on November 18th, 2009 | 24 comments

My teen daughter is a good girl. She gets good grades, participates in sports, helps around the house when I ask her (er… make that, she helps around the house when I give her gas money for her truck!)
So when one of the Hot Moms asked at the Hot Dads blog why it’s okay for [...]

Single Parent Life – Stories, Tips, Advice

Posted on November 17th, 2009 | 16 comments

A friend recently asked why my single parent blog covers such wide-ranging topics. Of course, there are single parenting tips and advice about divorce separation, co-parenting with an ex, raising children in a two-home family, child custody agreements. There are sexy and funny stories about dating after divorce. Like any blog, Dad’s House is an [...]

Crashing a Parents Party on Halloween

Posted on November 2nd, 2009 | 17 comments

My teen son decided to trick-or-treat this Halloween with a new group of friends. He’s in eighth grade and they’re in seventh, and I didn’t know any of these kids. When I dropped my son off, I made sure to go up to the house and meet the parents.
What do you know, there was a [...]

Is Divorce a Crime? David Brooks Might Think So

Posted on October 21st, 2009 | 21 comments

I recently had the pleasure of hearing New York Times Op-Ed columnist David Brooks speak in Silicon Valley as part of the Celebrity Forum Speaker Series. Let me just say – I was shocked at some of the things David Brooks said about divorce.
Or rather, things he didn’t say about divorce… I’ll explain in a [...]

When a Single Parent and Child Both Get Sick

Posted on October 20th, 2009 | 18 comments

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 [...]

The Police and My Teen Daughter

Posted on October 16th, 2009 | 20 comments

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 [...]