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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

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

The day I stopped trying to make my father happy

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Dad never had to say he disapproved of my upcoming marriage. It was clear from everything he did. By Elizabeth Margaret Newdom

December 6, 2018 Family
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