Nightmares on Toddler Street
With your child’s Big Bang of imagination comes dreams, particularly nightmares. One dads does his best to come up with creative solutions…
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How to Get Your Child to Eat (in 51 Simple Steps)
Got a kid who is a picky eater or just a handful at mealtimes? Here's a step-by-step guide to help you.
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Parenting Rearranges Your Priorities, Scrambles Your Brains
When our family moved back to Brooklyn, our already-complicated apartment search was complicated further by my son being ready to enter preschool.…
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Child Abuse: Spanking, Adrian Peterson and My Grandmother
The child abuse incident involving Adrian Peterson of the NFL’s Minnesota Vikings is just awful. There’s no other way around it. Child…
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Traveling Tech-Free Stops Life From Passing Kids By
Ferris Bueller was right: "Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in awhile, you might miss it.…
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5 Reasons My Child is in an Independent School
Independent school is not for everyone, whether for financial, social or religious concerns. But I know that my family is quite fortunate…
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Potty Training Requires Practice (and a Drop Cloth)
Here's something really important to remember: You're not "training him" to pee in the potty, you are help him practice skills. So…
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My Son Won’t Eat His Dinner: Here’s 39 Reasons Why
To borrow a line from the movie A Christmas Story, “My son works in reasons why he won't eat the way other…
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Even Even-Tempered Parents Sometimes Lose Their Sh*t
A lot of parenting advice boils down to being even tempered. The truth is, some of us have called our toddlers fucking…
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‘7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens’ Updated for Digital Age
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens by Sean Covey is something I could have used as a kid. There was very little…
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