Daddy Dialectic

This coming Sunday the 18th, starting at 2 pm PST / 5 pm EST, I'll be hosting a Firedoglake Book Salon for Naomi Cahn and June Carbone ...

I am spending today at Design 4 Resilience at the Berkeley Hub (watch the livestreaming here )—and so I’m thinking a lot about resilience. ...

Hot for Teachers w/ Megan Fox and Brian Austin Green from Megan Fox

Spot clearly didn't want to be in soccer class. How could I tell? There he was, in the middle of the basketball court, crouched in turt...

I was twenty and about to be a father. He had just turned twenty-one and was on his way to Redwood Summer, a call for people to come partici...

This morning I attended part of the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency board meeting, where they were considering a proposal to ...

Simon's post on fathering in the age of YouTube hit close to home. Liko and I spend a lot of time researching space and spaceships on Y...

One of the potential problems with parenting – according to Nurtureshock , the excellent book I’m currently reading – is too many rules. Hav...

Or, yes dad I know, no sexting! If you saw me now with my iphone, warm against my left butt cheek like a lover’s palm, the last thing I see ...

Friends (and by that, I'm referring to my Facebook friends) know that I've recently become highly amused by the blog Unhappy Hipster...

Thanks, Alex!

I remember well the day my father said, as he shed the sports section of the paper from his lap and checked the day's barometric pressur...

I thought I'd highlight some wholesome family content just published on Shareable.net , which I edit: How Kids Learn to Share Tools : H...

New Law Requires Women To Name Baby, Paint Nursery Before Getting Abortion

“Keep yer stick on the ice!” yelled a dad, his voice filled with anger. “Come on, number fifteen!” yelled another. “You skate like a girl!” ...

So I’m in Florida for my brother’s wedding. In the courtyard of my future sister-in-law’s apartment complex, I met a neighbor I’ll call Judy...

I thought I'd share some holiday-related stuff from the site I edit, Shareable.net : "How to Teach Your Kids to Share" : In wh...

The first time your baby crawls is one of fatherhood’s most cinematic images. Movements recorded in the memory to be replayed years later in...