Tag: dad
member name: Clay Nichols
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September 25, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
Serving alcohol at a kid's birthday party (to the adults, mostly)? An absolute requirement? A really bad idea? Both?
We're filming a segment on this topic in the DadLab Studio today. . . .
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January 30, 2008 12:26 PM EST --
Day one was marked by a clear sense of unease, a nervousness just beneath the surface. I first picked up on this when I began dinner preparations. Coop, who usually busies himself with . . .
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January 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
I took one look at the thing and sprained both ankles and fractured my tibia.
Because skateboards are not nearly unstable and dangerous enough, someone went ahead and invented the Ripstik . . .
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February 03, 2008 01:21 PM EST --
This is officially Not Funny Anymore. The little punks have given me this flu garbage. I've had it. I surrender. They can have McDonalds every night, and watch all the TV they want. . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:22 PM EDT --
What use is it for a blogger to go to Disney, if not to come back and write a long, snarky takedown of the Happiest Place on Earth? So here it comes.
I didn't like the coffee.
Is that . . .
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May 28, 2008 11:13 AM EDT --
With Father's Day approaching, it's time to look back to see how the institution of fatherhood has fared in the last 365. What are your nominees for the most significant moment in fatherhood in . . .
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December 03, 2007 10:46 PM EST --
When my oldest was entering Kindergarten, there was just one thing that I really wanted him to learn – not reading or math or social studies or science. Good values are fine and all, and . . .
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September 18, 2007 10:31 PM EDT --
A significant watershed in my parenting life has been reached. Two of my kids have soccer games this weekend. At the same time.
I'll be with my oldest. I'm sure it will be a . . .
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February 04, 2008 06:08 PM EST --
The studies hailing the health and well-being benfits of family dinner are numerous. For children in the studies, frequent family dinners correlate with decreased alcohol, tobacco, drug use, eating . . .
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September 11, 2007 02:26 PM EDT --
Nothing screams family and early childhood like Las Vegas. So I guess it is no surprise that the organizers of the ABC Kids Expo hold their annual trade show in Sin City. Every year, manufacturers . . .
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November 06, 2007 11:20 PM EST --
Soccer let me have a couple of hours off Saturday morning to moderate a panel at the Texas Book Festival that went under the title "Father Knows Worst." On the panel: novelist Dominic . . .
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October 10, 2007 10:46 PM EDT --
Over the last few years, I have developed for myself a Dad Spectator code of conduct – a set of 10 rules (commandments is probably too strong a term) for myself as Soccer Dad.
1) . . .
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February 12, 2008 12:30 AM EST --
It's tough for a dad, no matter how evolved and dispassionate and balanced with values in the right place, to watch his child lose a game. It's even tougher for a guy to watch his child . . .
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May 21, 2008 11:38 AM EDT --
Being a coach is a tough way to make a paycheck. I've watched a lot of them up close in my dozen years of living on a boarding school campus, so I know. Long hot afternoons on the practice . . .
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November 24, 2008 03:14 PM EST --
We took advantage of a weekend without sports obligations to ship the kids off to Baba and Bud’s house for two nights. I know there are probably some parents that feel really guilty about sending . . .
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October 03, 2007 11:59 PM EDT --
Who am I? Am I me, or am I the guy kiting hot checks at the mall?
My feelings for telemarketers, phone pollsters and other strangers calling the house are downright pathological. If callers refuse . . .
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October 23, 2007 11:13 PM EDT --
I sometimes wonder why I’ve kind of gone off the whole deep end with parenting – why I decided to leave a perfectly good teaching job for this whole goofy DadLabs interweb video show . . . .
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January 22, 2008 11:46 AM EST --
On a typical MLK day, the kids accompany their mom on the march in downtown Austin. My observations are usually made from the office, unfortunately. Yesterday, however, the weather was miserable, unfit . . .
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April 22, 2008 11:05 PM EDT --
"Daddy, why were you wearing a napkin around your neck?" Ri-ri asked with such disdain in her voice that my stomach knotted. It was the most dispiriting criticism I've gotten . . .
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September 25, 2007 10:47 PM EDT --
The parenting imagination is a powerful thing. Unassisted by any technology, I was able to vividly imagine every grievous injury and fatal illness experienced by all humanity from the Common Era . . .
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