parenting

what the backyardigans can teach you about god

December 18, 2009

Christmas snuck up on me this year. It often does, and I know I’m not alone. The older I get, the faster time accelerates. I fully expect to wake up any day and find out it’s 2025. Which will be cool, because surely by then we’ll be able to teleport. But Christmas snuck up on [...]

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when to intervene?

November 30, 2009

My grandma would yell “Don’t run!” whenever she spotted me moving at any pace faster than a stroll. I swear she said it every time I saw her. I thought she was being ridiculous. Clearly she didn’t want me to have any fun. Maybe I should blame her for my sedentary tendencies? But that’s another [...]

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girls and their toys

August 1, 2009

As a father of boys, I consider myself lucky. When it comes to buying toys for my kids, I know if I get them something I think is cool, they’ll be totally happy. Spaceships, super heroes, dinosaurs, pirates — none of this is a stretch for me. But what about all the fathers of girls [...]

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curling

July 21, 2009

I like saying parenting is like curling. You know, that sport in the Winter Olympics where they push a big heavy polished stone across ice and then frantically sweep in front of it with brooms to try and guide its course and make it go as far and as straight as possible but they can’t [...]

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fighting nature

July 8, 2009

I see myself in my kids. This can be good and this can be bad. Something I’m seeing now in Owen, who will be four in a couple of weeks (and again, where the hell did four years go?), is my tendency to sit around like a lump. Watching TV, playing video games, generally avoiding [...]

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father’s day is for idiots

June 19, 2009

I write a dad blog. It says so right up in the title. (A title which, I realize, is not very imaginative. When I started the blog I called it “The Once and Future Badass Dad.” But was both pretentious and totally nonsensical, so now it’s just Badass Dad Blog. Which is lame, but tells [...]