Archive for the ‘Fatherhood’ Category
Wednesday, December 27th, 2006
For those of you with daughters, the Always website has resources to help you deal with the difficult conversations you may have to have when she hits puberty. There are resources for Moms and Girls. There is even a link to common questions regarding menstruation.
I do take issue with the ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
I left after my performance at the Christmahanukwaanzakah Concert, as I had other prior commitments.
After my departure, it appears the concert degraded into pandemonium and backbiting. Time Magazine is considering retracting their Person of The Year award to the blogospere as a result. Check out Neil's coverage of the events ...
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Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
The RIAA is through with chasing you for what your children are downloading. They know you don't have the dough. Now they're after your children. I guess they figure the kids have more potential income over their lifetime.
The fact that the RIAA is chasing after these folks is disgusting in ...
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Friday, December 22nd, 2006
I was over at Caffeine Marketing (which I have in my Bloglines) and I came across a post discussing the New Partners advertising campaign. New Partners is a dating service, and they have chosen two of our America's toy icons for their advertisements.You can't tell here, but if you check ...
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Tuesday, December 19th, 2006
There are a number of reasons this photo needed posting:
There is a wacky weather pattern in the Northeastern US, and it is not any season here. If I can't ski, at least I can recall the summer.
I'm printing out photo's to send family at holiday time, and this one made ...
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Thursday, December 14th, 2006
This fine and sentence is not nearly enough.
Joe Francis and 'Girls Gone Wild' have pleaded guilty in the most recent case brought against the video empire.
Mantra Films Inc. pleaded guilty in a case that stemmed from its use of two 17-year-olds in its DVDs and videos, which feature young women ...
Posted in Family, Father-Daughter, Father-Son, Rants/Opinions | 3 Comments »
Wednesday, November 29th, 2006
How do you talk to your 9 year-old daughter about on-line predators, without freaking her out? My wife and I did it the other day.
Direct Link to mp3 file
Show Notes:
What is a predator?
US Postal Inspection Service website about on-line safety
Call the voice comment line at (206) 350-KIDS
email me
Check out ...
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Monday, November 20th, 2006
Yesterday was the last meeting of my son's rec soccer team.
You see, he's been playing on the team for 8 years, and the guys age out this year. They completed their last season undefeated,. To celebrate (which we would have done whether they had won or not) we had ...
Posted in Father-Son, Health and Fitness | 1 Comment »
Friday, November 10th, 2006
Daughter loves to sing. Loves. It.
Last night, I picked her up from French Class (she takes an evening class at the local rec center) and we headed off to the mall to get birthday gifts. She has two birthday parties coming up. One friend is a Beatles fan, the other ...
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Sunday, October 29th, 2006
I got up early this morning (as I would imagine many did, considering the "fall back" of the clocks, and found Sunday Worries and :Whoops in my Bloglines.What struck me was this quote:
This is one of those times I wish my Dad and I spoke. As it stands, I don't ...
Posted in Father-Son, Rants/Opinions | 1 Comment »
Monday, October 23rd, 2006
Every night, we go through the same thing.
I have a fourth grade daughter, who has reached the point where proper names need to be capitalized, book reviews have to be thorough, and math problems need to be right. This requires a lot of support on our part. My wife and ...
Posted in Education, Father-Daughter, Father-Son | 4 Comments »
Thursday, October 12th, 2006
I've been watching The Colbert Report on and off, and the Green Screen Challenge was a funny idea.
Some of the entries were neat. Some were dorky. But the landscape changed when Industrial Light and Magic actually got into the act. Check out video by George and the gang!
via Crunchgear
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Thursday, October 5th, 2006
I was reading a post over at Whit's blog (after he commented here) and it reminded me of one of my favorite diaper stories. All dads have diaper stories, don't they?
I was at a local Big Box store with Son 12+ years ago. He and I were shopping for something ...
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Tuesday, October 3rd, 2006
My wife brought home a brochure for The First Annual New York Fathers Conference.
It sounds like a lot of fun. There are 3 sessions, with 7 workshops available for each session. It includes breakfast (continental) and lunch. There are about 15 organizations sponsoring the conference, and the keynote is by ...
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Friday, September 22nd, 2006
O.K. I'm not really writing anything. However, I was reading Dave Barry and found the best headline I've seen in a while!
Thanks Dave, and Russell Blair.
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