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Is it ever okay to comment on your child’s weight? One parent wonders.

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My son obsessively exercises during the commercials of whatever he happens to be watching. By Michael Bahler

January 20, 2022 Parenting Challenges

Dads are taking on the burdens of remote learning too

little kid hands holding bundle of crayons
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Last spring, when we finally gave up the dream of returning to school, I held onto September as my North Star. By Steven Newmark

August 21, 2020 Culture, Parenting Challenges

How I came to appreciate my father’s weekly letters

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They arrived. One after the other. In snowstorms. On holidays. From foreign countries. In succession—as inevitable it seemed as midterms and finals. By David Joseph

September 24, 2019 Family

We live as we dream, alone

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“I built it myself. What do you think?” My father didn’t look up, he just took a drink from his bottle and kept staring at the television. By John Graham

July 30, 2019 Parenting Challenges

To my absent dad on Father’s Day, with love

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My father was an every-other-weekend dad, then a once-a-summer dad and, finally, a phone-it-in dad. Then we lost touch. By Stephen J. Lyons

June 12, 2019 Parenting Challenges

How to swerve: my unconventional path to fatherhood as a gay man

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I was a singer. She was a groupie. We decided to have a baby together. By Stewart Lewis

August 9, 2018 Culture

Punishment by weeding, a tale of fatherhood

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I’d tried to make my sons do various jobs over the years, all with disastrous results. By David McGlynn

June 15, 2018 Books, Family

How to explain blame and divorce to my son

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“Momma was crying last night,” my seven-year-old said. “She was crying because you left our family.” By Erik Raschke

May 30, 2018 Parenting Challenges

The time we lost my daughter’s favorite doll in a roadside hotel

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I was only thinking of miles, forgetting then, as I would many times, that part of parenting is sacrifice. By Paul Crenshaw

January 18, 2018 Family

To the little girl on the train whose mother is on drugs

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As someone with a son dead because of heroin, I couldn’t look away.
By Bill Williams

August 28, 2017 Parenting Challenges

The day I realized I’d become an intolerable softball dad

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I needed to embrace the role of supportive parent, to leave the coaching to my daughter’s coaches. But I just couldn’t do it. 
By Keith Landry

June 16, 2017 Family, Parenting Challenges
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