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Is Spanking Child Abuse?
Recently, Charlie over at HowToBeADad.com wrote a post that dealt with spanking children. He spoke up when he saw another dad who was too cavalier in hitting his own kid at the park. While Charlie...
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I Hate That Word
This evening, Heidi and I walked to our community park to let Harrison play around a bit (his new favorite thing is going down slides). We also wanted to take an opportunity to get out of the house and...
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Pixar Parenting Tips: Brave
Pixar stepped into the spotlight in 1995 when it released its first full-length animated movie, “Toy Story”. Since then, Pixar has grown to be one of the most powerful movie studios in the world and...
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One Disneyland Map, Two 10 Year-Olds, No Parents
One of the most challenging books I have read on parenting is Free-Range Kids: How to Raise Safe, Self-reliant Children, by Lenore Skenazy. Modern-day parents live in a world where worrying is billed...
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Raising Confidence
We all want our kids to be successful, to be people who make an impact in the world. No good parent looks at his kid and says, “I just want him to be average,” or “If she could be a follower, I’d be so...
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A Thank You to Foster Parents
Today I saw a Facebook post of some friends of mine who have been foster parents for a sibling group of three little kids over the last few years. The post included a cute, professional family photo of...
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There’s Been ANOTHER Change of Plan
If you are familiar with the story behind our adoption of Harrison, you will remember that the recurring theme of the entire process was “there has been a change of plan”. Nothing went the way we...
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Thoughts on Getting Married Young
I have often thought about how drastically the process of getting married has changed from when my grandparents were young. For one thing, the time between boy-and-girl-meet and boy-and-girl-marry was...
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How Do You Avoid Becoming a Workaholic?
Some of the jobs I have held over the years have been downright awful. I remember working one summer during college at a factory that manufactured those hard-shelled briefcases (like the ones James...
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What “Bruce Wayne” Taught Me About Generosity
Some people in this world make insane amounts of money, but billionaire industrialist and Gotham City playboy Bruce Wayne takes personal income to unimaginable levels of insane. Wayne is filthy rich,...
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