I recently wrote a story about how the iPad was created to keep parents sane. it caused quite the crap-storm with some readers, but parents who read it, agreed with me wholeheartedly. It covered a variety of ways for parents to keep kids corralled in sticky situations. This post, however, is not the same, but [...]

Two to three times a month I do school drop off. I feel like Mr. Mom when they said to Michael Keaton, “You’re doing it wrong! It’s the South to drop off MORON!!!” I don’t know where to stand. Not sure of the protocol. I am also one of the few dads there. We are [...]

Last year at this time, my oldest daughter was headed to Kindergarten. It was a scary thing. Here she was, an innocent, shy, caring girl that was going to be throw in the wolf den that is the public school system. I only call it the wolf den because it’s the unknown. You’re dealing with [...]

In the Greater Boston area, schools are opening, which mean kids have to get up early, clear out the sleep from their eye, grab their back packs and go to that place where they are supposed to learn all the things they need to learn to be wikked smahht. Not sure about you, but when [...]

That’s what all the literature on the subject and my instincts say, to speak with you, and then wait, wait for you to respond. No one in our house waits, it seems, to venture an opinion on something; as a clan, we crowd our spaces with noise. For your brother, the being closest to you [...]

This is a special week at my 3 year-old daughter Abby’s preschool. It’s known as “The Week of the Special Man”, a chance for dads to join their kids in the classrooms and spend some quality time with their classmates and teachers. I had an important work call in the morning and wasn’t sure if [...]

My oldest came home with a paper from school that talked a reading program that all students should participate in. The basis of the program is that each student needs to read a book with their parent and at the end of the session, the student needs to do a book report. Now, my daughter [...]

For background, I’ve always been a big proponent of Catholic schools. That’s not to say there is anything wrong with sending your kids to public school, I just like the religious aspect and faith formation available in the parochial environment. To that end, my kids have attended Catholic grade school and junior high. The mixing [...]

Out of the great state of California comes another pandering story of blatant pandering to one sub group of whining idiots. It seems that in the school district of Menifee Union they have decided to ban the Dictionary from school shelves due to it defining oral sex. That’s right, the actual dictionary. The Merriam-Webster dictionary. [...]

Editor’s note: This post is not about me, but about a different, married, 6’6″, father of three children named Ryan. And if shaving, waxing and balls offend you now is your chance to bail on this post. As a young man body hair wasn’t something anyone had to worry about, yet as an adult I [...]