Category Archives: Fathering From the Hip

The Playground Enforcer

Yesterday, my Fathering from the Hip column “Playground Justice” looked at my son’s Lil’ Napoleon complex – his insatiable desire for other kids’ toys, his insistence that it’s perpetually his turn. But on the unruly rubber-safety surface of the playground, especially one littered with communal toys as ours is, the aggressor can quickly become the [...]

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Watching Television with Mr. F

My latest Fathering from the Hip column – Hey Parents! Your Kids Are Going to Be Fine – brought me this question from Julie: How long before you allowed TV to be a part of the day? Well, we started out with the “TV isn’t good for a baby” mentality, but that quickly changed. There [...]

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The Sleepless Saga Continues

My latest Fathering from the Hip column tells of the epic struggle to regain control of our nights after Mr. F turned nocturnal. And man, was it nutty. The thing is, the story’s not over. F’s become terrified of being left alone in his crib during the day. It’s funny — he wants to be [...]

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What A SAHD Is Made Of, Just Posted and Already Revisited

My latest Fathering from the Hip column, What a Stay-at-Home Dad Is Made Of, went up this past Monday. In it, I muse on how a stay-at-home parent needs to hold “the belief that the emotional gains outweigh the financial, professional, and intellectual ones, that the love and selflessness of good parenting makes one feel [...]

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Yet More Confessions of a Fallible Father

My second Fathering from the Hip column, Confessions of a Fallible Father, posted yesterday. From the piece: The heart and the head. In parenting dilemmas these desires are often at odds, which is why navigating the many daily decisions of childrearing is so difficult and nerve wracking. A challenge I face even as I write [...]

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Introducing My New SAHD Column

Yesterday my column Fathering from the Hip debuted on Prospect Heights Patch with A Brief History of Drinking with My Baby, a piece about bringing F out to bars. (Because what typifies the stay-at-home dad experience better than afternoons in a pub with baby?) I’m excited to have another forum through which to share my [...]

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