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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
That Silver Haired Daddy of Mine by Gene Autry
Millions of fighting men missed their daddies listening to this World War II standard. Got to love the singing cowboy’s ache to wipe away years, make amends. Thousands who loved this song didn’t live to try. Scratchy, thin audio for authenticity.
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The Hurt Locker directed by Kathryn Bigelow
Fatherhood adds immeasurably to the hurt of U.S. Army soldiers portrayed in this Iraq War masterpiece -- N-O-T definitely not for kids -- that deserved more than…
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