By PAMELA PAUL Published: November 23, 2012 New York Times MOST divorced couples would probably prefer not to see each other. Ever again. But when you share custody of your children, you have to assume a certain amount of face-to-face time amid the endless back-and-forthing. Think of the clashing summer vacation plans, the who-goes-to-Lucy’s-birthday-party, the “Max…
Read moreMen (and Women) Behaving Badly
This sums up everything I have been thinking and reading over the past couple of years. It discusses radical feminism, why we marry later in life or not at all, the reasons why men choose not to marry at all, the conflicts modern women have, and how all of this affects our society. I like…
Read moreMy kids
I stopped them at the door before we were leaving today while they were putting on their shoes and said, “I want you guys to LISTEN to me!!!” They were a bit scared and though I was going to scold them. As I pointed in each of their direction, “I want to tell YOU…
Read more“Increasing numbers of single-parent and stepparent families does not strengthen the social fabric but, rather, dramatically weakens and undermines society”
Over the past two and a half decades Americans have been conducting what is tantamount to a vast natural experiment in family life. Many would argue that this experiment was necessary, worthwhile, and long overdue. The results of the experiment are coming in, and they are clear. Adults have benefited from the changes in family…
Read moreHow the ‘Having It All’ Debate Has Changed Over the Last 30 Years – Deborah Fallows
from the Atlantic: I recently cleared my calendar for nearly a month, deleting it all: work, meetings, appointments, dinners, movies, and even workouts at the gym. It felt at once liberating and luxurious, and a little bit scary. I had done this a few times before, twice for much longer times when our sons were…
Read moreAm I a ‘Working Dad’?
By KEN GORDON from the New York Times I’m a dad — two children, 9 and 7 — and I work. Hard. I fall out of bed at about 5 a.m. and stumble back there at about 10 p.m., and it seems like I haven’t caught my breath or cleared my to-do lists since…
Read moreWhat is the problem with Disney princesses?
In the notes of my son’s class, there was information about dressing up for Halloween. There was a specific note that said “no Disney princess costumes because they ask girls to be docile (sleep for 100 years, stay in a tower??? Please).” I saw this comment on a site where I found this photo: “Can…
Read moreIt takes a man to be a dad
I’M A MOM
This is a GREAT article. I saw it in the New Yorker Magazine and thought I’d share. Please read it when you get a chance: Mrs. Romney says there would not even be an America without moms, and she is totally right about that. We would just be a nation of dads, who, let’s face…
Read more‘Sleepovers’ With My 9-Year-Old Daughter
I just read a great pice in the Motherlode section of the NY Times. When I was in high school in the late ’80s, I took a job baby-sitting for a single mother with a 9-year-old boy. I didn’t know the family well. The father was absent from the situation, and the mother appeared…
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