Trigger warning: this post will involve emotions. Some dads are a little shy about dealing with emotions. It’s one thing to scream and chest pound over a touchdown with your buddies; it’s another thing to shed a tear because your six-year-old daughter pirouetted in her dance recital. Many of the best television commercials about fatherhood and being a real dad ...
Throughout the annals of medicine, a stark reality has been a prevailing pattern: doctors are merely human, after all. They sometimes dispensed bad advice. Doctors do have, though, one vital tool in their armamentarium: education over years of long hours, hard work and hands-on learning. So while any parade of social media gurus can blather on about breastfeeding do’s and ...
Regular readers of these entries will notice a frequent flippancy. Sometimes Virginia law deserves a tweak on the nose, a banana peel in its path. Not today. Some Virginia fathers are faced with real crises that compound divorce, children and addiction in a terrible trio of torment. While divorce is stressful, struggling with child support or child custody for an ...
Some of the most valuable work you can do comes without a paycheck. Volunteering in your community is a great way to help others less fortunate, share interests, and meet your neighbors. Involving your kids can make volunteering a wonderful bonding experience, too. It is also the antidote to that delightful little whine, “I’m bored.” Here are five-plus ways for Dads ...
Projectile vomiting. Shaving the cat. Accidentally kneeing you in the family jewels. Fatherhood brings a lot of unexpected events, but not all of life’s unexpected moments are unpleasant. You also get to watch the first steps. Getting a driver’s license. Shy questions about kissing. Becoming a father brings a lifetime of great and humble expectations, but it also brings a ...
Whether you are a divorced father, married Papa, or a single Dad, you know frustration. You know bewilderment, desperation, perhaps even a tinge of anger now and then. It comes with the job. How you express it is your choice. Many people turn to their local gym to sweat out their feelings. Some crawl into beds or bottles, but many ...
In 2016, the world had 50.442 percent males and 49.558 percent females, according to The World Bank1. That (rather neatly) adds to 100 percent and shows a slight edge (0.884 percent) toward men. You would think marketers would notice that slightly more than half the world is men, and significant number of those men are fathers. Yet, judging by some ...
Ice baths help bring down fever in children. Babies can sleep on their stomachs. Toddlers can sleep with stuffed animals. These are all examples of horrendously bad but common parenting 30 or so years ago. For the record, these are all exactly what NOT to do with young children; we used them here for dramatic effect. We do not condone any ...
If you are at all embarrassed to ask your doctor for help with ... er ... bedroom issues, imagine strapping on Pulvermacher’s Galvano-Electric Chain Belt1. Weighing in at 2.2 pounds, it was a collection of needlessly complex nonsense once used to treat ED, promote digestion, and relieve rheumatism. The chain belt was hardly a discrete item for manly men of ...