Tag: parents
member name: Clay Nichols
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January 21, 2007 04:11 PM EST --
A recent trip to the toy store had me wondering: what the hell happened to dolls? The "fashion doll" aisle is dominated by the buxom "Barbie" and the even more tawdry, er, sassy . . .
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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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April 10, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
A wedding and an Easter egg hunt this weekend had me thinking about kids and community.
Saying that we want our kids to have a healthy sense of community is easy because "community" is . . .
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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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February 04, 2007 12:43 PM EST --
A few thoughts about your children and the media on the eve of the Superbowl:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently published a policy statement that you should probably read. It is entitled . . .
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August 20, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
Still recovering from the huge bash on Friday night. Man, those people have serious issues. I mean, by the time the movie got started, dudes were off the hook! See if I ever take the . . .
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July 09, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
I was feeling a little nostalgic and drifting back through years of family summer vacation pictures, including those I have just recently taken. It struck me in this viewing that the children change . . .
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April 05, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
For those of you in two-parent households with kids, do you divide equally the tasks of raising kids and running a household? Is yours more of a 60/40 marriage? 80/20? How do you split . . .
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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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June 05, 2007 11:49 PM EDT --
One of the sacred cows of parenting, one of those deeply held societal values that all us breeders share, is that children should do chores – required, independently and regularly performed household . . .
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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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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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May 16, 2007 11:07 PM EDT --
I would have covered this title sooner, but the review copy disappeared from my desk the minute I brought it home, and I just recently got it back. My nine-year-old took one peek in between the . . .
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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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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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January 23, 2007 11:30 AM EST --
On a recent evening, as a result of my strict Parents Shouldn't Watch Practice policy, I found myself with an hour or so to kill, so I wandered on over to the local chain bookstore. I don't . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:29 PM EST --
Parenting three kids under ten is triage. You deal with the most critically needy, and the others are just going to have to wait. With two careers in the house, some things in the family just . . .
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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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