Daddy Dialectic

Over at the Greater Good blog (my esteemed employer!), Christine Carter McLaughlin & Kelly Corrigan talk about "flow" and wha...

This is an essay from the latest issue of boxcutter : Going through her eleven year old's new Christmas purse, Andee exclaims that the e...

By Chip -- Do kids need religion? No. It really isn't necessary or possible to force children to believe in "god," in either ...

I work at a popular science magazine that covers research into the roots of compassion, altruism, empathy, and other prosocial human behavi...

By Chip -- Last week the website Momsrising.org flagged an article and discussion in the Seattle Post Intelligencer newspaper about their...

Recently I was swapping emails with a group of feminist activists I've known for 15 years. We were talking about progressive family poli...

Early morning. Liko goes to the window and sees the light spilling over Mt. Diablo. "What are you doing, Liko?" "The sun. I w...

God hates stay-at-home dads : Men and women were created by God for specific roles and when men start giving up their responsibility to be t...

Hello This is tomas from rad dad and rad dad #5 is hot off the copy machine with a beautiful cover once again by local artist and crafty car...

Still working on my "Science vs. Parents" post. In the meantime, see this essay in the Bay Times about the impact of the "Ga...

News flash: "Women’s Math Performance Affected by Theories on Sex Differences," according U. of British Columbia researchers. I...

Things have been slow here at Daddy Dialectic: I've started a new job; Chip's been traveling; I'm willing to bet that Tom and Ch...

Note: as the essay says I am hoping to travel around the bay area -- sf, san jose, santa cruz, sacto, santa rosa, and the east bay -- in Dec...

A quick follow-up on my Oct. 13 post about Bevan Dufty and his new child: A smart and strikingly sane op-ed on the "what-if" scen...

Daddy Dialectic readers have been sending me tips right and left. Here are some hot spots: 1) Alex (in Boston, MA) pointed me to this bluepr...

I've blogged before about Bevan Dufty, my representative on the San Francisco Board of Supervisors. Bevan got together (in vitro!) with...

Good news : Despite their packed megachurches, their political clout and their increasing visibility on the national stage, evangelical Chri...

For the first year of my son’s life I was the sole means of support for our family. I worked at an independent media organization that by th...

Yesterday's New York Times contained an interesting piece on paddling in public schools : As views of child-rearing have changed, group...

A friend of ours is studying child language development. She asked us to note down words and phrases that Liko uttered during a 12-hour peri...