Daddy Dialectic

This is a post about not writing. It is not a post about writer's block. Enough has been written about that already. It is a post abou...

Seesaws, rocking horses, and merry-go-rounds can be lots of fun for children. But playground chess with your father-in-law is serious busine...

Hello readers, Ava here. I have asked Jeff to use his blogspace to insert some reflections about parenting in the post-industrial era. Whi...

Seven months after my daughter’s second birthday, she snapped. Not the regular toddler tantrum that had become a regular occurrence in our h...

1. This summer, we moved back to San Francisco's Mission district after a year-long sojourn in suburban Palo Alto. Three weeks ago we we...

Author's Introduction: Feeding my daughter, our second child, is an experience classifiable as something between a torture session, a...

[originally posted on August 10, 2011 at daddy in a strange land ] Exactly one year ago today, The Today Show told the entire morning-new...

[originally posted at The Good Men Project ] Last week, The Good Men Project started a conversation about race by publishing 8 articles f...

Today, the Good Men Project published an essay of mine about the lines of privacy in marriage , in which I argue that spouses have both the ...

I usually give Polly and Pip a bath three times a week – on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday mornings. While they do most of the bath stuff tog...

Here's the video from a presentation I gave with my friend and collaborator Christine Larson at Stanford University's Clayman Instit...

...available right now from Microcosm is the latest issue of Rad Dad! Here's their review: Hot on the heals of Rad Dad 19, we're e...

No balloon is long for this world. The one Jr. picked that morning was no different, but unlike others it was also bound for glory. Sky-bl...