It’s ALL Dad’s Fault!!
Self-image tanking? Insensitive “comments” from DAD caused this.Rebellious and delinquent? Authoritarian DAD–with all his laws and regulations did this to us.Sexually active at a young age? DAD didn’t say “I love you” enough and wasn’t caring or affectionate–we were just looking for love.Angry at men? Dang straight, because DAD ticked us off so much, all [...]
Parents, If You Could, Would You Give Your Kids Up?: Families in the News, Part 5
“OMAHA, Neb. — The grandparents of nine children who were given up by their father under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law said Thursday that they wished he would have come to them for help.”
Now this is a tricky situation because this dad who left all nine of his kids at a hospital had some seriously complicated [...]
Fun on Flight 1703 (The Zippy and Lippy Show or Dad Gone Wild!)
This past Christmas season my family and I traveled to New York City, (a favorite destination of ours–especially around Christmas). The trip was amazing–Central Park, The Grinch and A Color Purple on Broadway (go Fantasia!), pizza at Famous Ray’s (on 42nd St.), M&M’s superstore, breakfast in a diner with singing serving staff, and a number [...]
Parents: You Are What You Click…
It used to be said, “You are what you eat.” Bill Tancer , author of the new book, Click: What Millions of People Are Doing Online and Why it Matters. insists that nowadays, “You are what you click.”Tancer leads global research at Hitwise, an online market research company. His job is basically that of [...]
Even the "bad dads" need love this Father’s Day
Reader’s note: I like exaggeration, sarcasm….and satire. (Thanks!)
Hi, I’m Jim and I’m a (gulp)…fatherI am what is known as an American father. Yes, I am one of the much maligned, often reviled, always caricatured “dad” every child is mad at and every wife “can’t live with…and can’t live without”. Or so it would appear–if [...]