parenting

Jimmy Kimmel's sadistic humor - since when did parents decide it's funny to humiliate your children?

December 18, 2011

Sadistic humor is an oxymoron – it’s either humor or sadism. There is nothing funny about Jimmy Kimmel’s sadistic humor in the form of parents who humiliate their children. Call me wimpy or whiny if you want – I think its shameful.

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The Demise of Guys - Phillip Zimbardo's TED Talk

August 5, 2011

Every now and then I find a recording or a piece of writing that gets me thinking, and TED talks are often a wonderful source of new and unusual ideas. In this particular TED talk, Dr. Phillip Zimbardo, California Psychologist and Professor Emeritus at Stanford University, talks about The Demise of Guys. While I don’t [...]

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Making Men Better, and Making Better Men - Reflections After Maine

July 5, 2011

If boys are to become men – real men, not the caricature of manhood that dominated the advertising world of my childhood, or the new more subtle caricatures found in modern advertising and music – they need to learn to be articulate about their emotional lives. Daniel Goleman calls it “emotional intelligence.” I’m tempted to [...]

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Celebrating Our Angel - The Brief Life of Gabriel Liam Kertay

July 1, 2011

A few weeks ago, in my post What Does the Word “Dad” Bring to Mind?, I introduced you to 5 of my 7 children. Today’s post is about Gabriel Liam, our angel. It was a hard post to write in a way that communicates what I want to say, and it may be a hard [...]

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Take the Time - Maine Men Trip 2011, Day 2 and 3

June 24, 2011

Posting on Facebook about the day’s plans for Day 2 of the Maine Trip of 2011, Maddie wrote “Making men one memory at a time,” and that phrase struck a chord with me. Since its inception five years ago, the purpose of the trip has definitely been to create memories. What I hadn’t really considered [...]

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More Quantum Weirdness - Together on Tuesday as the 2011 Guy Trip Begins

June 21, 2011

Disconnect me from my world, and not only do I become unhappy, or sick, or less than myself – instead, quite literally, my “I” disappears. I do not even exist without you. My connections to Maddie, to my boys, to my friends, to you as you read this post, create me.

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A Father's Day Post - Becoming a Better Dad

June 19, 2011

Father’s Day. A day to reflect again on the great privilege of being a dad, to reflect on what my own dad meant to me, and to receive with enormous gratitude the love my children put into their tokens of appreciation, little though I may deserve them. This year, it comes at the beginning of [...]

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What Does the Word "Dad" Bring to Mind? - Together on Tuesdays

May 31, 2011

Together on Tuesday posts are about relationships, and today begins an irregular series on parenting, especially on fathering. This will take more than one post, and I intend to explore being a dad both intellectually and personally. At the outset I’ll say that I’d like to add value to a discussion that seems alternately superficial [...]

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What Mothers Do

August 19, 2009

I was my daughter’s Brownie Scout leader, and in order to take my troop camping I had to attend a three-day, intensive camping training.  This was hardly appealing to someone who had been avidly camping since childhood.  Unfortunately for me, the training ended up scheduled on the same weekend my daughter was also to get her God and Country award [...]

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