Simply siring a child is far different than fatherhood. A few minute's fun is nothing compared to a lifetime of worry, attention, and lame jokes. Being an involved father — a Dad worthy of the corny coffee mug or desk plaque — has always been a challenge. Try these 11 time-tested ideas. Impasta Some divorced Dads suddenly feel like they are part-time fathers. They ...
Good parents provide homes they intend to empty. If you did a good job parenting, your adult children visit but do not stay. Your kids are never too old to be beyond your reach. What about when they’re high schoolers ready to study abroad though? What if that time away from the nest coincides with your parenting time? The Benefits ...
Adults have the exam dream so often, its shorthand is recognizable with just those words: “the exam dream.” In the exam dream, you wake to find you are back in high school and confronting a final exam for which you are completely unprepared. Maybe the subject is astrophysics, or calculus, or ... perhaps it is a child custody evaluation, and it's ...
blink-182's song, Stay Together For The Kids, rose to #7 on the punk charts in its debut year, 2001. The video is searing and disturbing, mirroring the emotional peril kids in divorcing families feel as a wrecking ball destroys their home even as the band sings on. The lyrics speak of a child's helplessness watching parents who, “Rather than fix the ...
We are in the midst of an aural revolution. Many millions have invited electronic eavesdroppers into their homes, calling them Siri, Alexa, or some other name. Do you trust the spoken words from these devices? Do you trust "her" to hold your confidences? At some point, will you claim, "It's my word against Alexa's?" Are we seeing a societal shift from ...
Most locals around Virginia Beach get asked the same question by visitors: "Do you have any insider tips on how to have a good time in Virginia Beach?" We offer the usual ideas: visit Sandbridge for a quiet beach visit; try Catch 31; shop on Atlantic Avenue. Sometimes, though, we get a much more serious question: "Do you have any ...
Let's say you have a hankering for some Whitner's Barbeque, and you suggest it for lunch to your Virginia Beach office mates. Everybody's eager until that one coworker pipes up with, "I'm a vegetarian. I don't know how you can eat that stuff. Don't you know it's bad for your heart? I hear the cat population all along Lynnhaven Parkway is way ...
Gone are the days of dunce caps and willow switches to force kids to behave in school. The same problems underlying outbursts in the 1800s, though, still haunt our children. Difficult home lives, low self-esteem, being bullied; all these problems are everlasting in schools from Virginia to Vladivostok. As a parent, you are not helpless. Here's what you can do to ...
Standards of conduct for Virginias Guardians ad litem (GAL) exist; you can find them through Virginia's courts. The problem is not what is written on the paper. The problem, for many Virginia men, is how the actual person, the one fulfilling the valuable role of child advocate, handles the job day to day. Personal bias, what appears to be a predetermined ...