Orlando Nightclub Shooting Brings Terror Home for Gay Father
My daughter sees the Orlando shooting as gay people who love their community and dancing being heartlessly killed. She makes the connection…
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Rules for Children May Be Too Absolute for All Situations
Should we equate the importance of wearing a bike helmet to the level of never touching firearms in our kids' Never-Never Rules?
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Life in America: Active Shooters, Escape Plans and Lockdowns
Life in America is not needing to explain to our kids what is meant by an active shooter or being in lockdown.…
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Dads with Daughters Dating Told to Put Down Their Guns
Three dads with daughters blast the well-worn trope of the overprotective father pulling out a gun to threatens his child's prom date,…
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‘What If’ Parenting Questions We Hope Never to Have to Answer
A father is shot while walking with his son just blocks from home, and the 'what if' questions come flooding through his…
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Vanishing Illusion of Safety in Wake of Yet Another School Shooting
Another school shooting. We worry with fear now. Until we don’t. Until the news fades and the pressure of daily life washes…
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Our Kids Can Mend the World We Wrought
Whit Honea believes the children are the future, and they can't lead the way fast enough.
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Raising Daughters Without Threatening Their Dates
Put the shotguns and threats away, dads. Raising daughters well means that she'll be able to handle herself on dates and with…
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Summer of Childhood Innocence Shattered by World Violence
It has been a long, hot summer with the carefree days of childhood being interspersed with all-too-frequent headlines about killings around the…
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When Gunshots Prompt a Lockdown at Your Kid’s School
My wife and I didn’t hear the gunshots. What’s happening? Should we go? To the car? Inside? Is there danger? Get the…
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