Category: Parenting
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When They Love What You Loved
Family movie nights are getting easier now that the boys are six and seven. I could go on about everything that’s wrong with the new cartoons – bad storylines, self-righteous messaging, weak character development, seizure-inducing cinematography – but I’ll save that for another time. We’re not quite ready for Sixteen Candles, Teen Wolf, or Happy Gilmore, but we…
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The Trash Dads
A few weeks ago, if you’d seen the playground at my kids’ school, you’d have assumed someone had emptied a nearby dumpster. Strewn about were candy wrappers, gloves, masks, unfinished homework, calculators, deflated soccer balls, rotting banana peels, and just about anything else you could imagine a child might thoughtlessly toss on the ground at…
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When My Dad Dies
“Mark apparently had imagined that he was going to have his father around to hate forever. To hate and hate and hate and hate, and then, in perhaps his own good time, after the scenes of accusations had reached their crescendo and he had flogged (his father) to within an inch of his life with…
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