A Dad’s Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan A recent George Will column, “Lost In Electronica” (http://ow.ly/2ve0l), started me  thinking about how often kids says they’re bored. “Are you kidding me,” said in my best Robert DeNiro accen...

A Dad’s Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan I love Thanksgiving because it’s a holiday that transcends all religions, all cultures, and all ethnicities.  It’s about the basic notion of “giving thanks” and it’s really become a holiday that...

  A Dad’s Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan To some degree, everyone lives vicariously through his or her kids.  The question however is a matter of degree--how much?  It’s normal to want the best for our kids, but when we project our own fail...

Courtesy of The Partnership at Drugfree.org and TimeToTalk.org It is a surprise to many parents that they are the most powerful influence in a child’s life — greater than peers, popular music, television, celebrities and the media! Our research sho...

A Dad’s Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan I had a discussion with some other dads the other day about “the family dinner.”  To my surprise, many of these men described their family eating adventures as just that, an adventure.  Or, more spec...

By Jodee Blanco, Author of Please Stop Laughing at Me . . . One Woman's Inspirational Story For the past eight years, I've been traveling the nation's schools, sharing my message with thousands of students, teachers and parents that it's NOT just joki...

A post from Asylum that might be of interest: When Dads Get Depressed -- Who Says Postpartum is Just for Women?http://www.asylum.com/2010/08/23/postpartum-depression-men-father-dad/ Check it out.

A Dad's Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan This topic is so obvious yet I have yet to write about it. It may be partly because it is so close to home, for my boys.  I was blessed to have my mother and father in my life completely and lovingly, until they ...

A Dad’s Point-of-View, by Bruce Sallan We just returned from a boy’s trip to Vegas.  By “boys,” I mean my two boys, who are almost 16 and 13 and me, the oldest of the “boys” (according to my wife).  I had to consider, yet again, the dilem...

I was not expecting to enjoy the preview episodes of Fox’s new reality show House Husbands of Hollywood. I can’t remember a time when at-home dads were ever treated fairly on television and film, so why should a Fox reality show be any different? read more ...