About Pater Familias
What
Pater-Familias.com takes father-blogging to a higher level of challenge, the School-Age Child. All the easy laughs — poopoo, no more sex, brain damage from the Wiggles — are long gone. But the kids still need us, more than ever, even while they’re doing their damndest not to. They’re learning to deceive, getting good at it, too. And remembering. Sobering thought: What you do today, may still piss off Junior when you’re dead.
Who
Pater Familias is Mike Steere, omniwriter (books, periodicals, TV) and parent of first-grader daughter, blogname Girl Child. Pater is also the ever-loving spouse of media exec, dubbed Minerva. A year ago the family moved east from LA to Montclair, New Jersey, suburb in denial. Walk up the block, you can see Manhattan.
Why
The Pater Familias creed:
- “Daddy” is man’s highest honorific.
- Live up to it. Love it. Affirm it.
- No whining. No wanking. No mugging or straining for effect.
- No nothing to discomfit child or spouse.
Pater’s Plays
Father, Dear Father by Dixie Reelers
Roots Country (late 1930s) in Bad Dad vein. POV of child at bar begging father to come home where the fam freezes in dark. Download to hear Little Billy’s last words. Play on portable before you stop for drinks after work.
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