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December 23, 2008 12:39 PM UTC --
The pre-Christmas countdown period certainly has its sweet moments -- picking out and decorating the tree, time with family members you don’t get to see on a weekly basis, holiday parties -- but the family . . .
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December 08, 2008 01:38 PM UTC --
Though there are certainly annoyances in Disney’s latest animated feature, I have not enjoyed a family movie this much since Pixar’s Monsters Inc . Bolt, while certainly enjoyable as a piece . . .
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November 24, 2008 03:14 PM UTC --
We took advantage of a weekend without sports obligations to ship the kids off to Baba and Bud’s house for two nights. I know there are probably some parents that feel really guilty about sending . . .
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October 31, 2008 12:07 PM UTC --
Given the economic backdrop, it may be a good time to think about losing.
In the archetypical kids sports movie, the sad, diverse, middle-to-working-class team with crappy uniforms gets . . .
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October 10, 2008 01:03 PM UTC --
In our very unusual neighborhood, we have decided to afford our ten-year-old a good deal of independence and freedom. This is result is a result of our very conscious decision to encourage free . . .
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September 23, 2008 03:01 PM UTC --
This may fall into the classic Blogger Overshare category, but I’m going to talk about my sleep schedule. *Because* I think it has bearing on my parenting, and others may have had similar experiences. . . .
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August 06, 2008 05:08 PM UTC --
1) Jellyfish stings: vinegar is good but urine is better
We had a rash of jellyfish stings this summer, and I was even stung myself. The sensation is not unlike getting about a dozen or so fire . . .
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July 18, 2008 04:19 PM UTC --
I married very well. At the moment of this writing I am aboard my FIL's trawler steaming from Martha's Vineyard back to Cape Cod. My BIL has been hosting our family at the old home . . .
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July 09, 2008 08:56 AM UTC --
I was feeling a little nostalgic and drifting back through years of family summer vacation pictures, including those I have just recently taken. It struck me in this viewing that the children change . . .
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July 04, 2008 09:09 AM UTC --
My family has been away on vacation for the past week, leaving me behind to have a career. For a family man, time away from the domestic cohabitants is always disorienting, but remaining behind . . .
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June 27, 2008 06:30 PM UTC --
(This post is a continuation of a previous column about my recent travels to Stockholm to investigate their family leave and daycare policies.)
DadLabs is by no means alone on this press tour . . .
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June 18, 2008 04:31 PM UTC --
(Our web TV team traveled to Sweden to see if it is indeed the most Dad-friendly place on earth. What follows is the first part of a travel blog of our "dadventure.")
Day One . . .
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June 04, 2008 11:58 PM UTC --
Several newly launched Dad sites have come to our attention in the last few days. Dadosphere is a social networking site, brought to you by the team at type-a mom . Obviously this site . . .
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May 28, 2008 11:13 AM UTC --
With Father's Day approaching, it's time to look back to see how the institution of fatherhood has fared in the last 365. What are your nominees for the most significant moment in fatherhood in . . .
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May 21, 2008 11:38 AM UTC --
Being a coach is a tough way to make a paycheck. I've watched a lot of them up close in my dozen years of living on a boarding school campus, so I know. Long hot afternoons on the practice . . .
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May 08, 2008 12:21 AM UTC --
I suspect that there are a number of Americans that would rather buy a new car than a new set of tires. Buying tires may be the most arcane, arbitrary, and opaque of all major purchases in the American . . .
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April 22, 2008 11:05 PM UTC --
"Daddy, why were you wearing a napkin around your neck?" Ri-ri asked with such disdain in her voice that my stomach knotted. It was the most dispiriting criticism I've gotten . . .
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March 25, 2008 10:22 PM UTC --
What use is it for a blogger to go to Disney, if not to come back and write a long, snarky takedown of the Happiest Place on Earth? So here it comes.
I didn't like the coffee.
Is that . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:26 PM UTC --
Despite last year's Jet Blue travel debacle, I'm returned for the 2008 New York Toy Fair.
My generous and enthusiastic, but child-free host expressed interest in accompanying me to . . .
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February 12, 2008 12:30 AM UTC --
It's tough for a dad, no matter how evolved and dispassionate and balanced with values in the right place, to watch his child lose a game. It's even tougher for a guy to watch his child . . .
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