The hard place in the phrase, "between a rock and a hard place" was a whirlpool. In Homer's epic poem, The Odyssey, Odysseus must navigate his ship, the Argo, between a rocky cliff inhabited by the monster Scylla and a whirlpool inhabited by the monster Charybdis. Day care centers often feel themselves in that unfortunate spot because of Virginia custody orders. Your ...
Two heads are better than one. This old saying epitomizes only one of eight benefits of living as a blended family. A blended family is a single Mom with children partnering with a single Virginia Dad with children. Where one parent carried each household, now a Mom and a Dad shoulder the parenting burden together, with their kids under two wings ...
Lancing a boil is a simple process, really. Apply hot compresses "to encourage the boil to come to a head and drain." It's disgusting, we know, but for many Virginia Dads, lancing a boil is preferable to trying to find fun things to do with teenagers. Well, suck it up, Buttercup, because we have great ideas for real (and completely ...
Real estate financing markets roil with the slightest hint of news. Recently, even amid a strong economy, as reported in the Washington Post “the 30-year fixed-rate average [for mortgages] shot up to 3.73 percent.”1 This happened because the Federal Reserve nudged its rate higher. You may not be a financial wizard, but if you are divorcing in Virginia, you face ...
Comedian John Mulaney casually mentions, in his Netflix special The Comeback Kid, that his childhood was different from today's kids. Says Mulaney, “My dad loved us. He just didn’t care about our general happiness or self-esteem.” Today's parents strive to be their children's pals, and this leads to two nightmarish scenarios: helicopter parents, and lawnmower parents. What is a Helicopter Parent? ...
If you signed a separation agreement under duress, you don’t want to miss this. If you’re unsure what "duress" means, just ask Jared and Lindsay Rowley, who entered into an oral contract with Jesse Dimmick not to turn him over to the police. According to the American Bar Association, Dimmick and the Rowleys sealed their oral agreement upon the event of Dimmick ...
More than two million men are stay-at-home fathers, according to Pew Research1. If you are one of them, you know the constant jibes and jabs you fend off: you get up when you want, you don't punch a time clock, you are just lazy. For every insult, a stereotype lurks behind it. Let's look at five of these unfair stereotypes ...
You do not have to be a rocket scientist to launch yourself in a rocket. Mike Hughes showed that when he launched himself 1,875 feet upward, only to land hard in the Mojave Desert1. Of course, he got hurt doing it, which suggests that getting help from experts — like from NASA, let's say — is often useful. We mention this because, ...
Virginia is a typical American state, if you consider “typical” to include, according to Only In Your State1, the world's longest boardwalk (Virginia Beach), the world's record for being struck by lightning, and the world's biggest mandolin jam. Virginia is typically atypical, as are Virginia's Moms and Dads. Working out holiday custody schedules can start with “typical” and lead to ...