Daddy Dialectic

This post is about boredom. Because of the subject matter, it may also be boring to read, so if that's a problem for you, go back to ...

At 3.75, there is a certain way of running on the cratered surface of playground wood chips, with arms bent at the elbows like the upper lim...

Having read a lot of chatter on the blogosphere about Jennifer Senior's July 4th article, "All Joy and No Fun, Why parents hate par...

And here's the result of my second collaboration with DadLabs : I like the way this one turned out. It makes a strong 5-minute case for ...

I spent Monday at the “Happiness and Its Causes” conference in San Francisco, which was co-sponsored by my employer, the Greater Good Scien...

The "Mind in the Eyes" test was devised by autism researcher Simon Baron-Cohen (cousin of Sasha) to diagnose empathic deficits. Th...

Shortly after I started working full time again, Liko and I developed a tradition: On certain Sundays we take the F train downtown and we sp...

The first time Liko heard Frances England's first CD, Fascinating Creatures , he stopped dead in his tracks. As the hypnotic first song...

It's Thursday and the news alert pops into my email: California Supreme Court legalizes gay marriage . I think, "I'll have to b...

The new issue of Greater Good magazine (which I help edit) focuses on play: Can We Play? Play is essential to positive human development, b...

It was about one o'clock in the afternoon, and Spot and I were on the second floor of the Unitarian Church, in a sunny room full of toys...

I liked this list , from the blog "Here Goes Everything," which I just added to our blog roll. This sounds like a guy who has take...

About a year and a half ago, I took a long trip. It involved one of the world's lengthier voyages by air. When I returned a few weeks la...

In my ideal world, mothers, rich and poor, will be able to take at least the first year of their child's life off of work. Affluent moth...

Somehow, at some point, I have become a slob. My wife and I have debated the stages of the metamorphosis. It correlates strongly, though not...

Liko and Shelly are both ill and they both go to bed early. I tuck them in, do the dishes, pick up his room. Now what? It's only 8:45 an...

Is marriage dying, or is it just evolving? Four Pennsylvania State University sociologists used two national surveys, one conducted in 1980 ...

In the first months after my son was born, I experienced an emotional response to my dealings with other people that was truly new to me. It...

If we were to grab a coffee together, you probably wouldn't guess that I'm going crazy. You might not even suspect that you're t...

I am in the process of interviewing Bay Area families for a series of writing projects on non-traditional families, collected as the "2...