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Ahhh, the joys of holiday air travel. So much to do before you leave, and add the stress of rushing around to the airport and through security. Then add potential stress of family conflict when you get there. Finally add your kids to this holiday cocktail and it can become an experiment in hair loss. So, just what can you do to keep your sanity and your hair line intact? Many parents know and are prepared...
12/11/2011 5:27:00 PM
Our two dogs, my wife's and my first "children," graduated to the dog park in the sky. Ivy, a 16-year-old blue Merle Australian shepherd, and Hunter, a 14-year-old black chow shepherd mix, lived long, relatively healthy lives, and in the end we felt that we had to assist them along their journey to allow them to leave with dignity and not wanting them to unduly suffer. Both Ivy and Hunter were adopted...
11/3/2011 7:18:52 AM
September is synonymous with the return of football season and almost beckons the falling leaves and cool evenings of autumn. For thousands of young kids around the country, this time of year can be like Christmas and for others be a season to be dreaded. The attitude that your child may have about this has a lot to do with you. I remember as a kid, wanting to play football, but my mother wouldn't...
8/31/2011 9:03:54 AM
Kudos to the British and their Advertising Standards Agency. Recently they banned make-up ads from Uber-star Julia Roberts and Uber-model Christy Turlington due to excessive use of digital manipulation. The claim was that this was basically false advertising for the product they were pitching with their photos. You may be wondering why am I talking about this on a family blog? Because this issue of...
8/4/2011 9:26:53 PM
I picked up my 2 and a half year-old daughter from our caregiver's home and to my shock her caregiver said, "Show Daddy your pretty nails." My daughter then showed me her painted nails. They had a nail painting party that day. My wife and I had not painted our daughter's nails before, nor did we plan to for some time. As a psychologist and a father, I take a deeper look at the parenting experience...
6/30/2011 7:04:29 PM
I was at the park the other day with my daughter and overheard a conversation between a mother and daughter. Now please understand that I do not make a habit of listening in on other's conversations. The problem was that this mother was sitting back to back from me, and she was talking a little loudly to her daughter. Well, here's the set up. There were two 12 year-old girls playing on a piece of playground...
6/8/2011 7:05:20 PM
I had the honor of being part of a television panel on bullying a few weeks ago and left there feeling frustrated, as well as even more fired up that I have an important message to deliver. This show was on a Christian television station, and the motive was to bring more attention to the issue of bullying, the suicides that result from it, and what we can do, as a community, to make a difference. There...
5/13/2011 8:11:21 PM
I had intended my last post to be a one part blog on children and grief, but my daughter amazed me with how she worked through her grief, and I felt compelled to share her innate wisdom. As I said, in my last post, kids express grief in different ways and may not show at all in ways that we would expect. So here is how she seemed to work through her grief of the loss of my Dad at the age of five. My...
4/4/2011 7:58:58 AM
Recently my Father, aka Big Daddy, "graduated from the school of life with honors", as I refer to it. He was quietly a remarkable man who raised four successful kids, surviving the death of his oldest son 36 years ago, and continuing to live with honor, dignity and integrity. After living with Cancer for 13 years and having a few health scares over that time, my family and I were somewhat prepared...
3/28/2011 5:49:36 AM
I am dedicating this blog to a great man, Gorman Fisher, aka Big Daddy. I grew up with a dad who worked a lot. His work was important to him, but it wasn't until later that I truly realized why. As I kid, I wanted him to play with me, be at my baseball games, soccer games, scouting events, and while he made some of them, his attention to his work seemed to take precedence. I remember that when we did...
2/13/2011 1:35:08 PM
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