Tag: mother
member name: Clay Nichols
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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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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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July 04, 2008 09:09 AM EDT --
My family has been away on vacation for the past week, leaving me behind to have a career. For a family man, time away from the domestic cohabitants is always disorienting, but remaining behind . . .
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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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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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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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November 20, 2007 02:39 PM EST --
One of my kids approaches me with a request. He or she knows that there is a range of possible outcomes, from getting ignored to getting referred to another adult to actually getting me off my butt . . .
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November 28, 2007 10:54 PM EST --
On the always solid assumption that mild weather had settled in for good, my wife and I planned a short trip over Thanksgiving just down to San Antonio where we would meet my parents and my sister. . . .
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December 17, 2007 10:42 PM EST --
A quick poll of the DadLabs offices revealed a surprisingly low levelof concern about lead in children's toys. Most of this confidencederives from dads feeling like their kids are past the "everything . . .
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January 14, 2008 03:25 PM EST --
Last week I read my son's report card, and it said to me, "You're working too much." The grades were down, not sharply, but noticeably. In her comments, his teacher tried to allay our . . .
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February 01, 2008 02:59 PM EST --
If you have a sick child, it is very important not to turn a day off from school into a carnival atmosphere. Loads of coloring books, special movies, treats doled out to the sick child can obviously . . .
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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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June 27, 2008 06:30 PM EDT --
(This post is a continuation of a previous column about my recent travels to Stockholm to investigate their family leave and daycare policies.)
DadLabs is by no means alone on this press tour . . .
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