Vacations are Important (Duh!)
Even if you own your own business, you have to make time to get away. It’s hard, I know. You are convinced that everything will fall apart if you go. This article from Smart Money.com is a quick...
View ArticleHere comes Costa Rica
It’s almost here. Some of you may remember that I mentioned that our 19 y.o. daughter, who never even went to sleep away camp, is on her way to Costa Rica – next week, for 5 weeks. We are still in a...
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What Men Still Don’t Know…
I had the honor of interviewing Dr. Herb Goldberg - one of America’s best-selling authors and acknowledged experts on men, women, and relationships – on my radio show, Dad at Work. His books include...
View ArticleParenting Troubled Teens
There is a website I just ran across called Parenting Teens. I can only imagine the heartbreak of having to deal with a troubled teen. Maybe my wife and I were lucky. Our 19 y.o. is not “troubled.”...
View ArticleWhen Your Daughter Becomes a Young Woman
Its been many months since I have posted, and my intention, once again, is to get back on it here. Since my last post, my daughter spent 5 weeks in Costa Rica, on an environmental project. Keep in...
View ArticleGood parenting starts with birth control
This is a very interesting, and possibly controversial article about the responsibility of parents to limit the size of their families, especially when they can’t or shouldn’t afford to add more...
View ArticleOoops…Don’t Want To Insult Anybody…
It appears that Generations of New Zealand Parents and Grandparents have been insulted by the Children’s Commissioner who defended the “anti-smacking” law saying that “generations of parents didn’t...
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Falling Out Of Love
There was a very powerful article in the New York Times this last week by a woman, Laura Munson, who kept her cool through her husband’s midlife crisis – something that almost destroyed their family....
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A Dad With A Decent Moral Compass
In Newsweek this week, there was an article entitled “My Father The Dope Dealer” by Tony Dokoupil. It tells the author’s story of growing up in the late ‘70’s and early ‘80’s completely unaware that...
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Notes From The Sandwich Generation
This post I’d like to share a bit about how being in the sandwhich generation is affecting my life this summer. In June my daughter, graduated from UCLA, and left for 3 months to travel through Europe...
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