Daddy Dialectic

I was amused to run across this post at Daddytypes , about dialectics in the film Half Nelson . Includes a list of dialectics for kids resou...

This afternoon for lunch (I'm working today) I stopped by a playground near San Francisco's City Hall. I walked right past a sign th...

From a press release: Being a father has little effect on men's working patterns, in spite of the fact that they cut back their working ...

Time's a funny thing. It seems like before we had kids, we were in this timeless bubble. We'd go out to plays and dances and clubs ...

It just hit me. We've been doing this all wrong. Dads advocating for other dads to stay at home with their kids (or at least take more o...

“Cyclops, Storm, Nightcrawler, Wolverine, Colossus. Children of the atom, students of Charles Xavier, MUTANTS – feared and hated by the worl...

hey everyone -- sorry i've been a bit silent -- summer is always more hectic then i plan for...but it's been one that i learned an i...

Elisa over at Mother Talkers recently posted on a Salon article that asked whether we're going to see "daddy wars." My hunch ...

The Broadsheet blog at Salon.com comments on a feature in Sunday's SF Chronicle about stay-at-home dads: "I came away feeling lik...

Firefighters who want to live in high-priced cities can work two jobs, said W. Michael Cox, chief economist for the Federal Reserve Bank of ...

"Dreamworks has picked up the latest successful pitch from The Office staff writers," writes Martha Fischer at Blogging Sundance ...

It's hardly controversial to argue that war and instruments of killing are glorified in our society, and that young boys are a particula...

Based on a more or less true story! Characters: Dad#1 is a writer. Dad#2 runs a nonprofit law firm that sues prescription drug companies. Ac...

When my daughter CB was in kindergarten I spent about 2-3 hours every week volunteering in her classroom. I wanted to get to know her classm...

I don't have a car, and ever since Cole was old enough to wear a helmet, he and I have made a lot of trips by bike together. Riding prov...

My 15-year-old daughter CB likes to talk about politics. She discusses and argues politics with friends and relatives, in her classes at sch...

I’m sitting on a twin bed in my parent’s basement in Wisconsin, listening to The Mountain Goats and looking at Cole dozing on the bed next ...

I came across this article in The Times of India about stay-at-home dads . It contains the usual frame and perspectives you find in every ot...

Last year my then-14-year old daughter CB stumbled upon a right-wing online political discussion board. What shocked her was a post, and num...

One brief followup to my last post . Last night I listened to an audio interview of Linda Hirshman and Leslie Steiner Morgan at the Washingt...