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Dad Dances With Disabled Daughter In Pageant
Watch. This. (McKenzie is 11 years old. She has a life threatening disease called mitochondria. Here is what happened when she and her dad danced during a pageant held in her home town.) She has a...
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How To Hang Up Wet Bath Towel Instructional Video
This dad has been producing a short series of ‘how to’ videos for his teenagers. The latest deals with that seemingly impossible bathroom challenge: hanging up a wet bath towel. If you go to youtube...
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Are You A Good Mum?
This could help. source (The question about using ‘Frozen’ as a baby sitter gets me every time. The biggest problem with ‘Frozen’ is that whenever it’s on everyone else ends up sitting around watching...
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Celia Lashlie Interviewed About Raising Men by Richard Fidler
The late Celia Lashlie worked in prisons, schools and communities to encourage young men to reach their full potential. A New Zealander, she authored books on the subject of helping boys grow to become...
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The Futility Of Hoping For A Better Past
I was reading an article on Mockingbird that is an interaction with an online article about regret and parenting failures. One phrase quoted from the original article has been drifting in and out of my...
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Grace, Parenting, and Hiding In The Bathroom
This video featured on Mockingbird. If you can spare 25-30 minutes you may not even be the precise target audience, but if you make the time (maybe over a couple of efforts) you’ll find it rewarding....
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Cultivating A Heritage Of Forgiveness
This week’s Border Watch piece was a reflection on a parenting video I’d watched the week before. The paper titled this ‘Actions Key To Forgiveness’. It’s such an inescapable part of parenting that you...
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O You Terror
Parents, view this. Let the hearers understand. This must have done the rounds last year, but I missed it.
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What If Moms Talked To Each Other The Way They Talk To Their Kids…
Stolen from Deb’s blog. This is gold. ‘Gentle’
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The Hold
How to comfort a crying baby. By a pediatrician. This works. The babies look like they’re enjoying it. Shame it doesn’t look like you could do it with teenagers.
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If Parents Were Honest With Their Children
I heard a scrap of a conversation about the fine practice of not lying to your children yesterday. It requires a bit more finesse than this.
View ArticleA Basic Rule Of Parenting
A basic rule of parenting: No one wants to play with it, until someone wants to play with it; then everyone wants to play with it, but not together. To illustrate:
View ArticleHe Knows If You’ve Been Bad or Good…and Fills Your Stocking Anyway (via...
We never really did the Santa Claus thing, but we made sure everyone got lots of presents. Regardless. One mother’s struggle to observe some of the cultural expressions of Christmas without yielding to...
View ArticleThe Days Are Long, But The Years Are Short (via Sarah Condon)
Though parenting young children can be the most demanding of seasons in a person’s life, it is also a time that our minds return to with an increasing fondness as the years pass. Sarah Condon writes an...
View ArticleThe Gifts Parents Give Their Children That Break Our Hearts (via Sammy Rhodes)
Sammy Rhodes’ book This Is Awkward evokes a lot of familiar emotions as he writes about his own experiences with his father, and the impact those experiences have on his life and relationships with his...
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Early Father’s Day In A Snap
It was inevitable that my kids would figure out a wonderful early Father’s Day present.
View ArticleSurreal Moments In A Surreal Time
It’s surreal enough at the moment, but one of today’s more surreal moments was discovering that Toto’s song Rosanna was released on April 1 1982. More surreal than that was discovering that all my...
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