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
Papa Was a Rolling Stone by The Temptations
Bad Dad classic with funk, rhythm, and unique in this vein, fun. The brothers don't cry, they party, diggin' no-good Papa's misdeeds, told solo and in tight Temptation harmony. There's an off-song mama they keep asking if Papa was as bad as all that. He was.
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