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Nailing Fatherhood
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Rocking Mornings
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Fifty Shades of Pig
Embed from Getty Images — Fifty Shades of Pig Shannon Carpenter, Lee’s Summit, MO From Dads Behaving DADLY 2: 72 More Truths, Tears, and Triumphs of Modern Fatherhood Copyright © 2015 Motivational...
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Dads Behaving Dadly: Torrent of Love
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My Son Has Abandoned Me
Embed from Getty Images — “Dad, I don’t like Star Trek,” my son said to me. And right there, at that exact moment, is the moment my heart shriveled up, and the world became a cold dark place. “You are...
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World’s Worst Coach
Embed from Getty Images — I take solace that in this soccer game today, my boys haven’t scored on themselves. That is not to say that we haven’t helped the other team in this nine to one route they...
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Dealing With the ‘What-If’ Questions as a Father
Embed from Getty Images — “What if there is a tornado out there right now?” my son asks. His question is hard to hear because of the tornado sirens. They sound like screeching brakes that never come...
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Grandpa’s Tools
— “Dad, people are looking at us,” my daughter says.”Let them look, baby,” I tell her. “Hold the light a little bit closer. There ya go, just like that.” The nut on the battery cable is rusted, and...
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How Dads Can Interpret the Grunts of our Preteen Daughters
— “Ugh,” my twelve-year-old daughter says. Wait, is this a talking moment? Nope. It’s a grunted moment. So it’s more accurate to write “Ugh,” my twelve-year-old daughter grunted. To the untrained ear,...
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Einsteinium and Why My Boy Is Wrong
— “Dad, did you know that Einstein discovered an element? It’s called Einsteinium,” my son tells me. “Bullcrap,” I tell him. I know, that seems harsh to say as a father. I should be encouraging his...
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I Wish My Daughter Loved Me Like She Loves Her Hoodie
— I wish my daughter loved me as much as she loves her hoodie. That devotion in her eyes; the pure respect she has for the thing. Will she ever look at me like that? She comes down the stairs before...
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We Don’t Belong in a Fancy Hotel
— “Dad!” my son says with every bit of sass that a ten-year-old boy can muster. “This is not our hotel!” “Yes, it is. I’m sure of it,” I say. I’m totally not sure if this is our hotel. I’ve got...
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Avenge Me, My Son!
— “Avenge me!” I tell my ten-year-old son. “No,” he says. “What? What do you mean? You’re my son. If an international gang of assassins comes, you have to avenge me.” “Dad, they are assassins. I can’t...
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When My Daughter Thinks She’s Not As Important
— “It’s ok. I know that I’m not as important,” my daughter tells me. At that exact moment, I know I have failed as a father. I mean, crap. Where the hell did I go wrong? I almost slam on the breaks...
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The Fatherhood Lecture and Why To Abandon It
— The lecture begins, as it almost always does, with an involuntary spasm. A ripple starts in my stomach as air rushes into my lungs. My chest tightens, there is a quiver that I feel run up the back of...
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DADLY Dad’s Coffee Table Book Features Comic Relief Dad
— Comic Relief Dad Shannon Carpenter, Missouri USA thehossmanfamily.blogspot.com From DADLY Dads: Parent of the 21st Century Copyright © 2018 Motivational Press. Reprinted with permission. By Hogan...
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Fatherhood Isn’t Fair (Part I)
— There are enough dishes in the sink that it could honestly be called a Crystal Palace. I didn’t even know that we owned this many plates and glasses. Perhaps there is a gnome that comes in the middle...
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Watching Movies With Dad Brain
— Princess Belle needs to lay down some weed and feed. A whole crap ton, actually. She would probably be better suited to just going down to the local gardening store and getting a sprayer and a truck...
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Fatherhood Isn’t Fair (Part 2)
— You can read Part 1, here. — Son, this is Rocky II. They made a lot of these but this one is still pretty good. In Rocky I, our boy lasted fifteen rounds with Apollo Creed, a bad mamba jamba. You...
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Sharks Inside Volcanoes: Dad’s Sleepless Night Worrying About #MeToo
— Sharks can live inside volcanos. It’s true. I read it online. Everything posted online is true. Scientists have found a shark living inside an underwater volcano. This is it. This is how the world...
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