http://www.pater-familias.com/ ... because I'm Your Father! en yoyobop@earthlink.net Copyright 2010 2010-11-01T21:15:22+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/bad_kitty_books_by_nick_bruel/ http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/bad_kitty_books_by_nick_bruel/#When:15:49:58Z 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 or bribery. Only thing she wants out of the deal is Bruel's next Bad Kitty. The series, published by Macmillan (see pub's authorsite), started with… 2010-10-15T15:49:58+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/roadie_leads_to_at-home_daddy_guilt/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/roadie_leads_to_at-home_daddy_guilt/#When:18:52:22Z   Got to go easy on myself for exulting, to such an embarrassing degree, in last week’s anthem to my newly liberated self with legit employment outside our dutch colonial (at least for a few weeks). You gotta understand how good it felt to be the traveling magazine-writer… 2010-09-30T18:52:22+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/on_the_road_again_-_pater_has_paying_work/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/on_the_road_again_-_pater_has_paying_work/#When:16:05:46Z CHAMA, NM – Blogging behind the wheel by voice, with motel-room transcription and edit of words spoken into tiny digi-recorder on the road from Santa Fe to Wolf Creek Pass, Colorado. US Rt. 84 runs through high range so much closer to the sky and bright than the green, green Unsuburb… 2010-09-21T16:05:46+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/labeldaddy/ http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/labeldaddy/#When:11:17:03Z Put kid's name on everything he/she wears or carries, as our school mandates, with peel-and-stick custom labels ordered online from this slick site. Love the smallest-size numbers that fit on clothes labels, also the chance for kid to show style with combos of color, fonts, and icons. (We went… 2010-09-18T11:17:03+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/upscale_sales_pitches_that_flatter_and_set_you_up_to_get_screwed/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/upscale_sales_pitches_that_flatter_and_set_you_up_to_get_screwed/#When:17:58:13Z You’re right, I’ve got to let this washing machine thing go. It did leave us too young, at a moment when replacing it caused a certain amount of pain, both emotional and financial. But now we’ve got this way cheaper old-school unit with no digital anything, which would have… 2010-09-02T17:58:13+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/meghans_memory_game_iphone_app/ http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/meghans_memory_game_iphone_app/#When:16:33:22Z Stealthy last-minute school prep on Dad's phone or, if you caved in to pleading, the kid's own iDevice. This app entertains like any old memory game where you match things hiding behind squares, which seven-year-old Girl Child happens to love. But the things are words your kid ought to… 2010-08-19T16:33:22+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/torn_to_pieces_in_the_blackboard_jungle/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/torn_to_pieces_in_the_blackboard_jungle/#When:19:04:58Z Peeved Pedagogs Who Don't Want To Be My Friend. — Went over like a fart in church – at least with professional educators – did Why You Should Ingratiate Yourself With Your Kid’s Teacher latest Pater Post on the Parenting Channel of Yahoo’s Shine online mag. A mite mystified by the tonnage of umbrage… 2010-08-18T19:04:58+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/prey_by_michael_crichton/ http://www.pater-familias.com/picks/prey_by_michael_crichton/#When:00:22:03Z At-home dad saves humankind from nanotech cyborgs, takes care of relationship probs with tense executive spouse. This 2002 technothriller by late (Crichton died in ’08) great master of the genre has the usual Crichtonian messages about technology turning on its makers, but the at-homehood is… 2010-08-13T00:22:03+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/higher_wisdom_in_low-end_washing_machine/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/higher_wisdom_in_low-end_washing_machine/#When:15:59:52Z Don't you hate spending time and money on stuff that's no fun? Appliance Guru Speaks Healing Wisdom — Still feeling vacation glow, but major appliances are screwing with the mood. This first week back we laid out more $$$ than I like to think about for… A)    Heating/AC guys to fix the blower unit up in the attic, leaking serious water.  Good thing Minerva saw it… 2010-08-05T15:59:52+00:00 http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/gone_gone_gone/ http://www.pater-familias.com/blog/gone_gone_gone/#When:15:13:19Z You love vacation this much, too? Bonnes Vacances To Us; Hello To People Looking In From Yahoo's Shine — Long time no blog. Part I was summer fuzzbrain, segueing straight into panic and nutso trip prep and now - TahDah! -- out of the Unsuburb, out of pocket, out of country with Minerva and Girl Child. Posts from away, if the spirit moves. Otherwise back stronger than… 2010-07-15T15:13:19+00:00