Of course my kids look like my wife and me. We made them, after all. That’s our genetic material at work there, and genes tend to work with what they’ve been given. Every single person to ever set foot into...

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Today marks the release day of "Do Fun Stuff," an iTunes "kids album for adults" compiled by one-time DadCentrician Ryan of Pacing the Panic Room to raise funds for and awareness of Smith-Magenis Syndrome (SMS), a rare chromosomal disorder that can cau...

The future is a dark place.

A bass-heavy day care memory.

Marie Claire magazine, a bastion of hemline and hairstyle trends for women, declares that stay-at-home husbands are "the ultimate status symbol for the successful professional woman." Really? I'm the Jeffersonian deluxe apartment in the sky of spouses?...

In which I make my kid taking swimming lessons, whether he likes it or not.

He stands stock still, feet planted, arms pinned to his side, hands curled into tiny fists of fury. His chin is tucked into his chest, his face aimed at the floor, but his eyes, those eyes of his in which...

It has become familiar. This drive, weaving through city streets, trying to drown out the omnipresent howl of ambulances and the buzz of medflight copters with the mindless chatter of sports radio. Sitting trapped among the buses and passenger cars,......

Last week, my eldest and I took the day off to go on a little road-trip. We hopped in the car and headed south on the interstate, past downtown Austin, past the over-developed shopping mecca on the southern edge of...