Practical Dad

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Basics for Dads

• Some Thoughts on Becoming a “Stay-at-Home Dad”
• The Little Things - Bathtime Songs
• Yes, Dad, It’s Okay to…

Child Development

• Reading with the Kids - When Do I Stop?
• Brain Development and Television
• Teens and Independence:  Balance

Child Health

• Children and Milk
• PracticalDad and Growing Pains
• PracticalDad:  Do I Send a Queasy Kid to School?

Child Safety

• Comments on Becoming an Adult Male Volunteer
• Lessons from the Sandusky Allegations
• PracticalDad:  Permitting Self-Defense

College

• Vocation or Avocation?  Parents and Advising on College
• Playing the College Numbers Game
• College:  The Degree or the Experience?

Commentary

• Commercials and Perception
• The Great Divide
• Ghosts of Christmas Present

Communication

• Explaining Real World Consequences
• Teachable Moments:  Torture, Politics and Honking
• Keep Talking, They’re Listening.  But What Do the Youngest Understand?

Dad and Mom

• Upgrading Dad’s Hard-Drive
• (huh)Whipped
• PracticalDad:  Fatherhood and Testosterone (Take Two)

Discipline

• Controlling Your Kids
• Unpleasantries:  Discipline and Teens
• PracticalDad Discipline:  (Re)Grounding the Kids

Economics

• PracticalDad Price Index:  February Retail Grocery Basket Cost Declines
• PracticalDad Price Index:  January 2012 Prices Steady
• December PracticalDad Price Index:  Prices Up Again

Family / Personal Economics

• Kids, Christmas and the Recession
• The King is Dead, Long Live…?
• Kids Clothing:  How Much is Enough?

Family Management

• “Do I Hafta?”  Taking Kids Along
• Kids and Pets:  What to Consider
• Object Lessons

Father Lessons

• PracticalDad:  Knowin’ How to Do Stuff…
• Kids and Public Behavior
• PracticalDad:  Honoring The Other Parent, Honoring The Other Child

Housework

• Housework Minuet
• Cleaning Up:  Where Do I Begin?
• Why Do Housework?

Humor

• PracticalDad Slang:  Of Opies, Forcepushing and Duckpecking
• If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, v. 2
• PracticalDad Physics

PracticalDad Solutions

• Playing With The Kids:  How Badly Do I Want To Win?
• PracticalDad Solutions:  Uniform Hooks
• “Do I Have To Go?”  Taking the Kids Along

School

• Another Look at the Report Card
• PracticalDad and School:  Austerity Comes Home
• Kindergarten:  Ready?  Get Set, Go

Youth Culture

• Plan 9 from the Kitchen
• Co-ed Sleepovers
• A Tribe of Teens