I hope I can live this down. Someday, I’ll be able to look Erin right in the eyes and tell her that it didn’t matter, really, in the long run. Maybe I’ll be able to use it as an object lesson for Adrian. He needs to know that part of being a man means you…
Category: Parenting
Parenting in the Digital Age: Two Problems with Technology
We’ve been hearing, and worrying, for years about the irresponsible and scary ways kids and teens use digital technology. They send inappropriate, and permanently scarring, texts and Facebook updates. They engage in cyber-bullying. They record video of themselves beating the hell out of each other and then upload it boastfully to video-sharing sites. They have…
Banning Dads from Parent Groups: Some comments about philosophy
Start here for the background to this post: Daddy Dialectic: Parent with a Penis? Can’t Join the Golden Gate Mothers Group. I don’t really have anything to add to the conversation except that it’s a hard philosophical position to take that would allow one to say “It is better that this world include mother-networking groups that…