The parents of every generation expect and hope that their children can and will do better than they did. Ours may be the first generation, in a very long while, where it is both unlikely and unrealistic to have this expectation. The world has just gotten ...

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Cheese and wine are fairly good company.  We all improve with age and someday we will all be consumed.  Two of us by the other.  One by worms or hellfire.  It depends on who you ask. This birthday started like most do, with somebody puking.  However, it was the wrong midnight ...

In Theory: Don’t play the “Mom’s Away” Card. Dad taking care of the kids when mom is out of town should be a non-event. Because dads are now equal co-parents, it would be absurd and demeaning for a dad to ask for some kind of accommodation or special ...

I’ve been playing video games for as long as I can remember.  It started one fateful evening when my family went out to dinner and there was this new machine at the restaurant, and it wasn’t a pinball machine.  It had two long blocks and the goal was to knock ...

Our fifth Dad in the Limelight is Kevin Metzger from My Spelling Sucks and http://www.thedadvocateproject.com/. I want to thank Kevin for being a part of this series. It has been great getting to know him and now sharing ...

Our fourth Dad in the Limelight is Aaron Gouveia from Daddy Files as well as being a newspaper reporter in the Cape Cod area. I want to thank Aaron for being a part of this ...

When I was a child, my mother brought home a little dog that was so small that she carried it in her purse.  The dog was a mixed-breed of Pekinese, Pomeranian, and Chihuahua and my mother named it Su-Su. Fully grown, she weighed maybe 7 pounds.  ...

Editor’s Note: We are honored to welcome guest columnist Don Harrold from practicaldad.com.  This article is the second in his three-part series exploring college planning. The first column, published in January, is “Rethinking the College Model.” The experience of choosing a college is very different when you’ve got a teenager ...

Our third Dad in the Limelight is JR Reed from http://www.sexandthesingledad.com/ as well as KLBC 1610 AM in Long Beach, CA. I want to thank JR for being a part of this series and helping with Dad of Divas ...