In Australia we celebrate Father’s Day in September. This is good because it gives the kids a full 4 months to save up after Mother’s Day.
In the USA, it’s celebrated in June. With that in mind, some crafty inventors have put together a catalog of Perfect Gifts for the Imperfect Father. Here’s one (the remote [...]
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Father’s Day Gifts
June 14th, 2007 · 4 Comments
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Boys and Movement
June 11th, 2007 · 5 Comments
This is another chunk of an Ian Lillico article. Ian’s co-founder of Boys Forward and you can see the last article I posted about his material to get all the links…
Boys convert feelings to movement. Little boys get onto their tricycles, then bicycles, and then cars, as they grow older, when they have an emotion [...]
Tags: A Word to the Wise · The Male Approach
Anniversaries
April 24th, 2007 · 8 Comments
Well, the Ninja and I celebrated our 13th wedding anniversary in typical busy suburban style yesterday: by going out to do the grocery shopping. Cash flow and busyness conspire to make the official date a later-rather-than-sooner event.
Ninja’s mum/mom kindly gave us a card, as she always does, and this time a present. I was (of course) [...]
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A Freakin-Out Father (with a great blog)
March 21st, 2007 · 2 Comments
Think you’ve got it hard as a Dad. Check out this Christopher’s life at Death by Children:
Lice Lice Lice Baby (dealing with the creepy crawlies in your kids’ hair)
My Eyes Burned Out By Boobs (getting confronted with your daughter’s … womanhood) [Glad I have boys!]
Happy Pulaski Day (getting scammed by your son)
My life’s a breeze.
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Handy Info for Dads
March 20th, 2007 · No Comments
Good morning, good afternoon, good evening - whichever timezone you may occupy as you read this. I just want to take a short departure from all the attempted humour to link you to 3 great articles.
Kindred Magazine is an excellent resource for parents. It must be, it published one of my articles this month. (ipso facto…)
Usually their material’s [...]
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Happy Birthday Ewrokka
March 18th, 2007 · 5 Comments
Oldest Son [sometimes known online as Ewrokka] turned 11 yesterday. Yes. e-le-ven!
I have officially become one of those men that feels older because of the age of his children.
One of the two celebrations we had for his birthday involved taking a small group of his mates out to an all-you-can-eat restaurant.
When you watch a group [...]
Tags: Guys I Have Known · Me & Mine · The Male Approach
