Category: Father’s Opinion

One of the more controversial parenting subjects that has appeared between my own childhood and the current era is the topic of leashes for children. Proponents...

In a recent Attachment Parenting discussion, it was asked: Do you refer to your children as “children” or “kids”? It was posited in that...

Prompted by a recent discussion on an Attachment Parenting community, I decided to read the first chapter of NurtureShock: New Thinking about Children, on the s...

I consider myself to be following an attachment parenting strategy. However, I found myself recognizing very little of what noted author Erica Jong characterize...

Since I’ve become a father, I’ve gone from fretting from the paucity of AO games to the paucity of EC games. Nintendo, the most family-friendly of t...

The KneeBouncers store sells a tshirt that says, “My computer has been taken over by KneeBouncers.” It speaks the truth. There are many educational ...

Because of our affinity for Imperial Roman culture and religion, we made our son a bulla, and bestowed it upon him at his naming ceremony shortly after his birt...

Apparently, a government interagency group is developing non-binding guidelines for foods which are marketed to minors. If food producers were to follow these g...

We went to Applebee’s last night for the first time since kidlet started eating Big People food. We were rather shocked that the “children’s m...

I was raised as a cultural mutt. Half my family or so on each side is German but largely indifferent to that heritage (with occasional exceptions, such as my mo...