March Madness offers parents a double bonus situation: excitement and insight. Behind the blinding blitzkrieg of b-balling, beer commercials, and college boosterism, I found some parental tricks easily transferable from the polished hardwood courts to the stained-forever carpets of our cozy family room.

Jump Ball
This is so...

Roses are red,
You look nearly due,
Good golly, you're big,
Enormously gorgeous, too!

Valentine's Day seems like an appropriate time to set the record straight from the heart about a pet peeve of mine, and while some of you may think I'm blatantly pandering to female...

Can anyone say their parents were perfect? OK, those of you who raised your hands may now Google the word "denial."

For the rest of us, of course our parents made mistakes. It's as normal as... as not being there when I came home from my first two-week, sleep-away camp...

Fatherhood continues to amaze, delight and enrich me. I just went to a sex education class with my 11 year-old son, and yes, I was secretly dreading it.

My wife signed us up. She was almost giddy from the program's great reviews she'd heard through her ever-flowing moms' grapevine....

We've all heard about the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. Here are my Seven Wonders of Parenthood... as discovered and stumbled over on my trepidatious expeditions as an ordinary dad.

1. TEMPLE OF OVULATION ORGIES
There's an ancient, mystical skill women possess for divining the best times for...

Like just about every parent I know, I have some concerns about kids and technology, whether it's the time sinkholes and lurking dangers of social media, the addictive nature of video gaming, the lack of physical exercise, or even the cost and shelf life of increasingly sophisticated electronic devices. But...

Traditional holidays are great, and I've discovered they're even more fun when you have kids. You'd have to be a pre-transformation Ebenezer Scrooge not to delight in your children's dreaming and diabolical scheming for holiday presents, their wicked Halloween costume sense, their fearful fondness of booming fireworks, and all their...

As I prowl through the tangled jungle of parental advice literature, I can no longer sugar coat my flaky approach to fatherhood. I'm forced to admit... I'm a Tony-the-Tiger dad.

You see, I'm dedicated to raising my two children to become human beings, flawed and imperfect creatures with feet of...

The most important survival skill I've learned during my 11 years as a midlife dad is that a sense of humor is truly the best medicine. The ability to laugh when my automatic reflexes urge me to scream or cry or hide or run away to Las Vegas helps me...

I'm an older first time father, a late bloomer dad, a more senior sire. Our son was born when I was age 49, and our daughter arrived three years later. While I've discovered over this past decade of parenting that becoming a father in the maturity of midlife has proved...