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9 Incredibly Uncomfortable Yet Absolutely Essential Questions to Ask...
This is the latest in a series of informational posts I’ve been doing on the gestational surrogacy process. This is for those of you who might be where I was about 5 years ago, weighing the options...
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Ultimate Parenting Smackdown! Why the Anti-Time Out People are Wrong, Wrong,...
I’ll admit that 90% of my parenting philosophy comes from Supernanny, because watching a reality TV show is easier than reading a book or taking a class, and you get to look at cute kids acting like...
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The Rules Are Different When Your Kid is Sick…
… and boy, do we have one kid who knows how to take advantage of that. So I wasn’t surprised when Sutton showed up at my bedside at 3:03am this morning. Who knows how long she’d been standing there,...
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My Post About The Thing That Happened That I’d Rather Not Talk About
Enjoy this picture. After the last few days, you’ve earned it. I don’t want to write about what happened. I don’t want to think about what happened. For the last few days, I’ve done everything I can to...
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2012, Our Moving Year
Just over a year ago, my family was homeless. Okay, so it wasn’t in the sleeping-outdoors, panhandling-for-change sense of the word, but technically, we were without a place to live. We’d packed up our...
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A Reality Check, From Thomas the Train
This weekend, we took the kids to see a Thomas the Train live stage show. “Daddy?” Bennett asked me on the way there. “Will Thomas be real?” “No,” I said. Drew practically swerved off the road....
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How to Win an Argument With My Daughter
“Let’s go, guys. Time to put coats on!” “I’m not wearing a coat today!” “Yes you are.” “No!” “Honey, it’s zero degrees outside. Do you know how many degrees that is? None. That’s cold.” “I’m wearing a...
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What Are You Doing The Rest of Your Life?
Just about the most horrible thing you can ask a kid, other than “Do you want to watch Barney?”, is “What do you want to be when you grow up?” My kids are 3 years old. You really expect them to have...
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My Little Mean Girl
“If a baby came to my house, I would hit it so that it would leave my house.” That’s a direct quote from my 3-year-old daughter, Sutton, whom I’ve previously declared to be the sweetest little girl in...
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Things That Go Jump in the Night
I’ve written before about how my kids are obsessed with Halloween. Their favorite thing at the Halloween store last year was a spider that jumped out at you when you stepped on a floor pad. It also...
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My Son is Special
I had originally planned to call this post, “Shameless Boasts of a Superdad: My Kids Are Freaking Geniuses,” because any parent knows that their #1 responsibility in raising their children is to brag...
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My Two Daddies… The Awesome, Cool, Hilarious Daddy, and the Other One
(l-r) Awesome, Cool, Hilarious Daddy; Daddy There was nothing I wanted to inherit from my father more than the name “Dad.” I loved my dad, and in my mind, he was indelibly tied to that particular...
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Not All Fish Die. Right, Daddy?
There’s something particularly disturbing about being on vacation with your family, getting a cell phone call and looking down and seeing that it’s coming from your house. In this case, it was our...
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Who is Funny, According to Sutton
“Daddy, some people are funny, and some people are serious. Daddy’s funny.” “Am I funny?” “No. You’re serious.” “Are you funny?” “Yes.” “Is Bennett funny?” “Yes.” “So I’m the only serious one?” “Yes.”...
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5 More Secrets I Keep From My Kids
Hey guys. It’s Daddy again. Remember that post I wrote about the 10 biggest secrets I keep from you? Of course not! I only shared that with everyone except you. (Oh, and did we have some good chuckles...
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Just a Couple of Gay Dads at Disney World
Last week, I did something I never thought I’d do. I went to Disney World as a dad. The last time I’d been there, I was pretty much still a kid myself — 20 years old and just coming to … Continue...
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How to Talk to Your Kids About Gay People, By a Gay Person
[Note: I originally published this piece here as How to Talk to Your Children About Gay Parents, By a Gay Parent. The post took on a life of its own and was read and shared by lots of people whose kids...
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Different Wavelengths
“Hey, Bennett! Let’s play walkie-talkies!” “OK!” “You go in your room, and I’ll go in mine.” “OK!” “ROOOOOARRR!!!! I’m a big, scary monster!” “Oh, hello! I’m a beautiful princess!”
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New Post on NY Metro Parents!
Sorry about the lack of posts lately. I hope you’re all enjoying your summer as much as I am. If you’re a parent anywhere in the NY Metro area, as I am, you’ve probably flipped through a copy of NY...
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