Category Archives: fatherhood

Adventures in technology

“I wish I had a camera,” said my father-in-law as he sat behind me in the minivan. “What do you want to take a picture of?” I asked. “The baby,” he said. “He took the bottle from me and he’s … Continue reading

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My child is how old?

Over the past few weeks, I’ve seen a condescending meme pop up in my Facebook feed that criticizes how many parents choose to state the ages of their young children. Here ’tis:  The meme itself is presented in something of … Continue reading

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Sleep by the numbers

I honestly don’t remember how we did it with our other two kids. On the one hand, the last time I had to really track the sleep habits of an infant was nearly a decade ago and those memories are … Continue reading

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Stephan Denisovich on Fatherhood

I recently started reading Anton Makarenko’s 1937 A Book for Parents. Makarenko is perhaps best known for his work The Road to Life which was originally published in Russian as The Pedagogical Poem. I read the first volume of The … Continue reading

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