Tag: mothers
member name: Clay Nichols
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February 01, 2007 01:05 AM EST --
My mother-in-law is presiding over one of the most unique and touching raffles that I have ever seen. Spread out on a table in front of her are about fifty pieces of costume jewelry (necklaces, bracelets, . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:31 AM EDT --
Mother’s Day. Give mom a card, breakfast in bed, handmade presents from the kids – all cute as a button. But let’s face it. This day just isn’t getting the job . . .
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January 25, 2007 01:12 AM EST --
Recent census data reveals that married women are now in the minority. For many, I think this is an amusing and/or satisfying indication of how empowered women have become. Articles offering . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
According to mainstream media, parenting is a bit like trying to carry an enormous cardboard box with nothing but a cannon ball in it: minor shifts precipitate a sudden problem. At the moment, the . . .
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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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June 13, 2007 05:09 PM EDT --
At DadLabs we are committed to raising sensitive, expressive, creative, and empathetic children. One of the best ways to nurture these traits in your kid is through art. It's important to encourage . . .
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May 22, 2007 11:42 PM EDT --
Somebody recently asked me, "what are the five things that nobody tells a guy about being a dad?" Things like not seeing movies in the theatre any more, or "slight" changes in your . . .
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June 20, 2007 12:11 AM EDT --
Summer is the season of boredom. Just ask my eight-year-old. Despite his frequent and high-pitched and really annoying protestations to the contrary, I think that boredom is a good thing. Boredom . . .
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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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August 29, 2007 12:42 AM EDT --
Boy, has fatherhood changed, what with Start Over Dads or SODs (men over 50 starting second families), couples waiting later in life to have kids, working dads taking kids with them on the job, and that’s . . .
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September 05, 2007 07:34 AM EDT --
My oldest child, Wilson, sits in one of the two fighting chairs in the wide open stern of the Banshee with his fishing rod bent over, hauling up and reeling down, celebrating his ninth birthday. . . .
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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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