Daddy Dialectic

A blog for twenty-first-century parents

Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Are Men in Crisis?

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I just returned from the annual Chicago conference of the Council on Contemporary Families, which consisted of a series of briefings and dis...
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Sunday, April 19, 2009

Moon Up There

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One January morning, in temperatures that now seem as unbelievable, ridiculous, and as distant in time as the reign of the dinosaurs or the ...
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Tuesday, April 14, 2009

Random News, Mostly about Me

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1. Greater Good (the magazine where I work as senior editor) has been nominated for another Independent Press Award in the category of ...
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Wednesday, April 08, 2009

Decency in Iowa

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Iowa Senate Majority Leader Mike Gronstal refuses support Senate Minority Leader Paul McKinley's effort to amend the state constitution ...
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Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Paternity Leave: The Ultimate Family Vacation

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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 ...
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Monday, March 30, 2009

Why Not Dad?

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Why Not Dad? , says the film's website , "is the result of 9 months of ethnographic collaboration between the filmmakers and a grou...
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Monday, March 23, 2009

Notes on children and violence

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I am guilty guilty GUILTY of neglecting my blogs, especially Daddy Dialectic. I've had a lot going on with my so-called career. But main...
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Monday, March 09, 2009

President's Obama's family policy agenda

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It's ambitious . Highlights: * Strengthen Fatherhood and Families: Barack Obama has re-introduced the Responsible Fatherhood and Health...
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Saturday, March 07, 2009

The sad inevitability of Kelsey Grammer

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Get ready, here it comes : Will Americans be able to laugh about the scariest recession in recent memory? Will brands be willing to take par...
Thursday, March 05, 2009

"This is America"

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The Daily Show With Jon Stewart M - Th 11p / 10c CNBC Gives Financial Advice Daily Show Full Episodes Important Things With Demetri Martin P...
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Prolegomena to a Theory of Mom Behavior

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Half the time I don’t feel too weird about being the only dad in my son’s parent-tot nursery school class. The other half of the time I frea...
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Wednesday, March 04, 2009

Fatherhood and economic realities

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I turned my recent blog entry on how our economic catastrophe might affect fathers and fatherhood into an op-ed for the British Guardian ne...
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Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Nick Clegg is right

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It's a new media trend: Since 80 percent of people laid off in the recession have been guys, pundits and journalists are asking themselv...
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Monday, February 23, 2009

Do Men Get Pregnant, Too?

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And so here is the product of my collaboration with Texas-based DadLabs --I supplied the idea and the framework; they made it manly and amus...
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Wednesday, February 18, 2009

Open 24 Hours

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OK, immature as it is, I'm really enjoying DadLabs , which is a good thing, because I collaborated with them to create a segment on the ...
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Does concerted cultivation produce selfish children?

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Last month, I posted an essay about Malcolm Gladwell's new book Outliers: The Story of Success that provoked a lively discussion . Gladw...
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Monday, February 09, 2009

Kierkegaard for Babies

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Friday, February 06, 2009

How I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love TV

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It was a bitterly cold winter afternoon. 4PM and already dark. I was tired, and dreading the 2 hour stretch that yawned before me, from the ...
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Friday, January 30, 2009

Don't try this at home

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See more funny videos and Funny Videos at Today's Big Thing .
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Sunday, January 25, 2009

Stand by your woman

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Mothering reports on an important new study: The best chance of forming a long lasting relationship with an unmarried father and building th...
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