Daddy Dialectic

A month or so ago, Junior's naptime died. It has been replaced by daddy's naptime . I don't call it "daddy's naptime ...

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

The following essay is excerpted from the book , Truckin' with Sam: A Father and Son, The Mick and The Dyl, Rocking and Rolling, On the ...

At 3.75, there is a certain way of running on the cratered surface of playground wood chips, with arms bent at the elbows like the upper lim...

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 ...

Guess what happened at our fall preschool potluck? Lots of dads showed up. Hooray! I don’t know what was going on. Had they all read that...

On the Tuesday after Labor Day, we went to the playground. The sun was out. The air was warm. And the place was empty. It was ten o’clock in...

For my fellow geek dads (and moms): Check out this very original study of what children want from technology . At first glance, the question...

My family has just moved from Cincinnati, Ohio to Lexington, Kentucky. Along with figuring out how to move all of our stuff from point A to ...

Moms and Dads Socializing at A Local Playground Prelude to The Fourteen Points (skip to bottom to get straight to it) Whenever I look back ...

Last week, I published an op-ed in the San Francisco Chronicle about the Proposition 8 ruling. It's nice and short and topical, and I h...

"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...

As World Breastfeeding Week winds down and the streamers and buntings are removed from city streets, the breast-shaped floats are garaged u...