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Lisa Belkin: Whose Job Is It Anyway?

2012-05-31T12:30:56Z

I'm betting that, without much effort, you can think of parents -- probably even in your own home -- who are a scramble of expected and unexpected traits.

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Jason Good: Self-Help From a 2-Year-Old

2012-05-24T14:48:05Z

De-clutter! Start by throwing all your dishes in the garbage. After that I suggest toothbrushes and important paper work.

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A Kid's To-Do List: 8 "Pressing" Tasks For Today

2012-05-23T14:48:51Z

The List. Always getting longer when you think you've made progress. It lives on scraps of paper or neatly on your phone -- and you live by it. Someti...

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Jim Higley: Attention Kids: Grades Are NOT Everything

2012-05-23T14:03:15Z

I think kids should work hard, use their talents and take school seriously. But more than anything, I want my kids to learn how to learn.

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Steven Crandell: From Father to Son

2012-04-24T13:30:53Z

The gift of appreciation is the greatest of all gifts, for it acknowledges and validates the other person and sometimes starts a chain reaction of love that can reach across the generations.

Read more: Sons, Men, Parenting, Love, Appreciation, Children, Fathers, Relationships, Separation, Parents-Dads, Fatherhood, Parents-Fathers, Parents News

Jason Good: One Dad's Take On The TIME Cover

2012-05-11T15:27:12Z

Is attachment parenting better than other kinds of parenting? No, it's just different. Will I buy TIME Magazine? No, I will steal it. Do I enjoy breasts? Yes. Do I like heavy metal music? You bet. Does that have anything to do with anything? No it does not.

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Sherri Edwards: A Mother's Scorecard

2012-05-10T12:57:30Z

Year 7: Nothing will be more endearing than coming home to find your husband with his hair in barrettes having a tea party with your daughters.

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John McCormick: Storytelling With Your Kids: How to Become a 'Story Dad'

2012-05-02T14:28:03Z

When dads tell me they don't know how to tell stories, what they're often saying is, they don't know how to talk with their kids.

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The 10 Most Influential People In Family Life Today

2012-05-01T12:49:13Z

1. Moms

Don't get us wrong -- dads are a key part of family life, with many more involved in parenting than ever before. But (and this probably won...

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John Crocker: What the Chimps of Gombe Taught Me About Parenting

2012-05-01T11:10:22Z

As a family doctor and the father of two boys, I realize each day how much these chimps living in remote valleys along the shores of Lake Tanganyika taught me about parenting and healing.

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Trevor MacDonald: How I Learned To Be A Breastfeeding Dad

2012-04-29T15:44:45Z

I am able to be pregnant because I am transgender. Because my surgery removed most of my breast tissue, I don't know how much I'll be able to breastfeed, but I really want to try.

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John Willey: Hey Procter & Gamble, What Happened to Dad?

2012-04-26T17:21:49Z

Was there some sort of apocalyptic event that wiped out all the dads from the planet?

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The Didactic Pirate: Telling My 10-Year-Old That I Am Gay

2012-04-13T11:33:36Z

One of the last people I came out to was my 10-year-old daughter, about nine months into the process. Strange that the final person to hear the news was one of the people who needed to know the most.

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Obama's Parenting Fears

2012-04-11T10:51:41Z

Stephanie Decker, the mom who lost her legs saving her children from a deadly tornado, had a surprise conversation with the President recently.

St...

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Why Britain Has 17,000 Pregnant Men

2012-04-09T11:04:56Z

The data seemed, at first glance, like it could be indicative of a medical miracle. Between 2009 and 2010, thousands of British men turned up at hospi...

Kevin Hartnett: Why My Son Believes In A Dad He Can't See

2012-04-08T12:22:10Z

Our son is no less certain of his own name, or of the existence of his right hand, than he is of our presence in the house as he sleeps at night. This is a wonderful thing to give a child.

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Lisa Belkin: The Deepest Truth Of Parenting

2012-03-23T18:26:41Z

When President Obama spoke in the Rose Garden this afternoon he took a complex and horrifying event -- one that will rightly lead to wrenching conversations about racism, and race relations and self-defense, and police bias -- and distilled it to its core.

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Maria Lin: 6 Survival Strategies For All Single Parents

2012-03-21T09:20:36Z

You matter. Your children may be the center of your universe, but it doesn't mean that you have to disappear to give them everything they need.

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Dan Bucatinsky: Crisis Of Conscience

2012-03-21T10:36:00Z

There's new legislation in Virginia allowing private yet state-subsidized adoption agencies to discriminate on the basis of sexual orientation if, you know, they feel it violates their religious or moral convictions. So much for the wall of separation between Church and State.

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John Willey: Am I Failing As A Dad?

2012-03-19T16:05:54Z

Sometimes I just wish I could erase huge blocks of time from my life. I don't want to remember the half hour screaming matches or the times I wish my kids were not around. They can be tough to deal with sometimes.

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Lisa Belkin: Huggies Tries to Woo Dads, Insults Them Instead

2012-03-12T11:06:49Z

Huggies says it set out to "celebrate" dad. Instead it insulted them. Do "real men" change diapers?

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Michael Ian Black: My Utter Meltdown Before Baby

2012-02-28T10:30:27Z

In preparation for the baby's arrival, I decide I need a new desk. No doubt this is due to a natural biological impulse common among expectant parents to start nesting.

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Charlie Capen: Why Won't My Wife Have Sex With Me?

2012-02-27T01:31:46Z

In the beginning, there was sex. And it was good. And there was more sex. And it too was good... Then, my wife got pregnant as the result of this awesome, great sex.

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Dad Takes Adorable Photos For Sick Grandmother

2012-02-22T15:26:24Z

It's not every day that a little girl can transform into Super Mario, ride a flying bicycle, or let down her hair like Rapunzel (and then have her sis...

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How Dads Are Changing The PTA

2012-02-21T12:57:35Z

At Public School 11 in the Chelsea neighborhood of Manhattan, the senior president of the Parent Teacher Association is a vivacious chatterbox who asc...