Category: Parenting
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Dear Friend Who’s About to Have a Kid: Life is About to Get Simple
Dear Friend Who’s About to Have a Kid, As an expectant father, most of what you’ve been told is that parenting is really hard. Other synonyms: difficult, tough, challenging, life-altering, impossible, a grind. But “hard” seems to be the adjective of choice for the modern, unsolicited advice-giving parent, usually along with a sigh and a…
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Swimming Lessons: A Microcosm of Parenting
Last month I signed up my three-year-old son for swimming lessons at the local YMCA. One of my 2019 goals is to make sure both of my boys are semi-proficient swimmers, and I knew if I didn’t pay up front, it was never going to happen. Most of my friends are Goldfish Swim School zealots,…
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How wrong I was: golf as a dad
adapted from the “Against the Grain” column in the August 2016 issue of Golf Chicago Magazine “A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds…Speak what you think now in hard words, and tomorrow speak what tomorrow thinks in hard words again, though it contradict every thing you said today. — from Self-Reliance, by Ralph Waldo Emerson…
