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Girls Way Meaner, Says Yahoo Poll
Guys, were we really so outgunned when we were kids? Are we still?
Seem to have struck a nerve here. Ouch.
Having begged the question in recent posts, finally came out and asked -- Are girls meaner than boys? -- in latest Pater Post on the Parenting Channel of Yahoo's slick online… read on »
March 18, 2010
Against Conflict Resolution
Do problems between kids really need to be worked out?
Father Teaches Wisdom About Relationships With Words From Drinking Song
Maybe this is a mama thing. First time one of them leaned on me to get our girls together so they could work things out, was way back in preschool.… read on »
March 17, 2010
First-Grade Friends And Nemeses
Do kids need to be mad at somebody in their group? Is it a girl thing?
Child Nurses Resentments, Holds Grudges, Dad Wonders What’s What
Thank God, is all I can say, that I am not a practically-seven-year-old female. Just listening to Girl Child talk about the social warfare at school and up and down… read on »
March 10, 2010
Never Again - Morning Homework
Do I really have to learn everything the hard way? Do you?
To Teacher, Pater Must Tell Shameful Truth
Damn you, Bonnie the Cat. Because of you, I have to email Mrs. Taylor, Girl Child’s first grade teacher, expanding on my earlier scrawl on a damp page fragment in… read on »
February 3, 2010
Beastly Dad
Are you more of a jerk than you were before parenthood?
School Morning Reveals Loud And Really Unlikable Alter Ego
Jean-Paul Sartre was wrong. Hell is not other people. Hell is yourself – more specifically, yourself trying to get an obstreperous six-year-old geared-up and out the door on time. Painful,… read on »
November 10, 2009
Pumping Pumpkin
Got personal tricks for high-impact baking?
Recipe Hacks, Presentation For Primo Pie
Okay, listen up. Tuesday we got the PTA Election Day Bake Sale at Big Brick Elementary School. Pie from this kitchen going up against bundt cake, Nana’s rugula, Italian mamas’… read on »
October 29, 2009
No-TV Blowback
Thinking about weaning kid(s) off the screen? Already did?
Disarmed, Almost De-Fingered, By Media Ban
Parenting rule of rules: The Law Of Unintended Consequences. Do some right-minded thing, and suffer weird side effects. I give you… A sudden longing for the days when the Old… read on »
October 27, 2009
Generation Kinder-Kill
Is pretend violence okay?
Why We Should Give Up on World Peace
Girl Child at the mirror, grooming for school. She vamps for full effect. Little soon for that, but, hey, she does her own hair now. Brushing I do not miss,… read on »
October 23, 2009
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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BAD KITTY Books by Nick Bruel
Bruel's brill books starring psycho cat has our seriously reluctant reader second-grader poring over the pages for half-hour stretches, even more, without threats…
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