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Blog Action Day 2010: How the Selfish Father Can Conserve Water
As part of Blog Action Day, today’s post will be on water conservation and how the selfish father—the father who wants to spend time by himself taking 30 minute showers while singing Huey Lewis and the News, and the father … Continue reading
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M(ad) World
It’s almost unfair really, teams of marketing experts thinking up how to sell this and that to kids three and four decades younger than them. The word statutory of “statutory rape” comes from the same root as status. Essentially, when … Continue reading
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50 Tell-Tale Signs of a Selfish Father and What to Do About It
I’ve recently realized that I took this blog and ran with it without ever taking the time to define selfish. Also, while I’ve offered some advice on how to combat selfish leanings, I think that creating self-awareness is some of … Continue reading
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Active Voice
A lot of folks are getting (have gotten) really excited about Your Baby Can Read, the innovative system developed by Dr. Robert Titzer that helps kids recognize words by as early as 9 months old. Other folks are on the … Continue reading
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What I Talk About When I Talk About Eating
Last week I mentioned several documentaries about food—Supersize Me, Food Matters, The Beautiful Truth—and believe me, there’s many more where they came from—Food Inc., How to Cook Your Life, King Corn, and many more. Plus, there are those Michael Pollan … Continue reading
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Cupcakes in the Cradle
When I had the idea to start this blog, I bought a bunch of books on fatherhood—Bill Cosby’s Fatherhood, Dr. Aaron Hass’s The Gift of Fatherhood, and I also bought a book that a group of UNCW writers put together … Continue reading
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The Electric Family
This will be a somewhat longer post, and I’ll post these kinds of cultural studies essays maybe once every season or so as a way to broaden the discussion a bit. This post in particular is also a way I … Continue reading
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Holding On
I didn’t watch Lassie too much growing up; it wasn’t in my regular Nickelodeon repertoire along with Doug, Clarissa Explains it All, Guts, and, of course, the paradigm shifting Pete and Pete. But it did air in the mornings at … Continue reading
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Motorvation
Sometimes, when my wife asks me to vacuum while she’s out, I’ll run the vacuum around really quick without ever plugging it in to make it look like I sucked the dirt, hair, crushed cheerios, and skin cells up, but … Continue reading
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Letting Go
I wear 15% of the clothes in my closet. This isn’t saying I have such a large collection of clothing that I couldn’t possibly wear it all, or that I’m some hoarder that holds onto every sparkly vest, tunic, and … Continue reading
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