Daddy Dialectic

Imagine the following scenario: A father and his five-year-old daughter head out to a basketball court at the local playground. He carries h...

Back in September, I posted an entry wondering if the seeming ubiquity of preschool attendance for three-to-five year olds around our neighb...

One of my guilty pleasures is taking about 15-20 minutes each Friday to read Bill Simmons’ column on ESPN.com. Written from the perspective ...

"The first crying of children is a prayer ... They begin by asking our aid; then end by compelling us to serve them. Thus from their ve...

My newest collaboration with DadLabs.com... Are you a princess parent? Does your baby girl have more princess paraphernalia than you can fit...

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 ...

As a way to announce the imminent arrival of rad dad 11, I present to you the intro to rad dad 10...get ready... I have to share something....

Peggy O’Mara has another sharp editorial in the current issue of Mothering magazine, this time on New York’s public health campaign agains...

I enjoy reading Parenting magazine, about the same way I enjoy reading Cosmopolitan or sitting around kibitzing about the stuff of daily lif...

Hello -- it's been a while since I posted, and since rad dad 8 is taking shape, I thought I’d post something from rad dad 7 as a way to ...

When I read the article on picky eaters in NY Times earlier this week, I was especially intrigued by this line in the sidebar : "Givin...

Spot's mother does something that I call "the stare." It's a technique of intimidation, overlooked by the Pentagon, but le...

The Spot has a funny button. Finding it is one of the things that makes my day worthwhile. What makes it interesting is that the funny butto...

My high-school friend introduced me to her 5-year old son the other day. Apart from the fact that he stood exactly 180 degrees facing the op...

At some point, I have to talk about Proust. I feel a deep sense of connection with the narrating character, so deep that I wonder if I can r...

I just got back from the tenth anniversary conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, a network of family researchers that I recent...