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  1. Right Now, in a Galaxy Right Here

    Let this complete a trilogy of posts in which I fret about whether and when to introduce my daughters to various works of art/media that I loved growing up. As […]

  2. Parenting From the Bleachers

    My favorite week of the Nurturing Fathers class is the one I spent a year preparing for. When it came up in my training, I knew I would be in […]

  3. Fathers, Real and Imagined

    So I know Father’s Day was last weekend, but we can still talk about them, right? Fathers. We all had ’em at some point. Some of us are one! I […]

  4. Learning All the Time

    This week’s post is by featured contributor Esther Schiedel. We hope that you enjoy it and, as always, we look forward to future posts by Esther. Several years ago, when […]

  5. How Do We Even Know Anything About Parenting?

    Okay, so this piece from Longreads, My Bad Parenting Advice Addiction, is pretty funny (be advised of a single strategic use of profanity within). In the essay, Emily Gould spends […]

  6. Kids Hitting Kids

    As you know, occasionally I like to delve into an internet search (well, it’s not really delving, per se, since it takes three microns of a second) on a parenting […]

  7. You Don’t Have to Go to College

    That’s right. I said it. Just ask Animal Collective. We were talking to our twelve-year-old about this today. We were roasting hot dogs at McDowell Creek Falls (because having Mondays […]

  8. In Defense of Screenless Media

    I have written on various occasions, including recently, about screen time for children and exactly how much we should freak out about it. As much as I’d like all our […]

  9. Tell Me When to Panic

    I keep coming across a study that makes a remarkable correlation. Namely, that drug use among teenagers has gone down across the board in the last few years, just as […]