Listen, Listen, and Listen Some More
Girls tend to be a riddle to fathers and stepfathers. Like any mystery, the relationship with our daughter can be frightening, exciting, entertaining, baffling, enlightening or leave us completely in...
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A lot of dads have to be doing something else before we feel ready to start talking to each other about our kids. A jog, a card game, a yard project, a round of golf, or any number of other “guy”...
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I happen to be an alcoholic and, thankfully, I got sober before my daughters were born. As of today, they’ve never seen me drink. I used to think that, because I didn’t drink, I hadn’t modeled for my...
View ArticleWhy Teen Magazines Might be Bad for Your Daughter?
Back when you and I were kids, girls read Seventeen magazine hoping to learn how to look and good get a date. Today, even with cable and the internet, young girls still turn to Seventeen, Cosmo Girl...
View ArticleDo You Know Her Best Friends
How well do we know–and how much do we know about–our daughters’ best friends? The answer to that question seems like a pretty good barometer of where our father-daughter relationship stands. I...
View ArticleListen, Listen, and Listen Some More
Girls tend to be a riddle to fathers and stepfathers. Like any mystery, the relationship with our daughter can be frightening, exciting, entertaining, baffling, enlightening or leave us completely in...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t There More Groups for Fathers?
A lot of dads have to be doing something else before we feel ready to start talking to each other about our kids. A jog, a card game, a yard project, a round of golf, or any number of other “guy”...
View ArticleThe Big (Capital “T”) Talk
I happen to be an alcoholic and, thankfully, I got sober before my daughters were born. As of today, they’ve never seen me drink. I used to think that, because I didn’t drink, I hadn’t modeled for my...
View ArticleWhy Teen Magazines Might be Bad for Your Daughter?
Back when you and I were kids, girls read Seventeen magazine hoping to learn how to look and good get a date. Today, even with cable and the internet, young girls still turn to Seventeen, Cosmo Girl...
View ArticleDo You Know Her Best Friends
How well do we know–and how much do we know about–our daughters’ best friends? The answer to that question seems like a pretty good barometer of where our father-daughter relationship stands. I...
View ArticleListen, Listen, and Listen Some More
Girls tend to be a riddle to fathers and stepfathers. Like any mystery, the relationship with our daughter can be frightening, exciting, entertaining, baffling, enlightening or leave us completely in...
View ArticleWhy Aren’t There More Groups for Fathers?
A lot of dads have to be doing something else before we feel ready to start talking to each other about our kids. A jog, a card game, a yard project, a round of golf, or any number of other “guy”...
View ArticleThe Big (Capital “T”) Talk
I happen to be an alcoholic and, thankfully, I got sober before my daughters were born. As of today, they’ve never seen me drink. I used to think that, because I didn’t drink, I hadn’t modeled for my...
View ArticleWhy Teen Magazines Might be Bad for Your Daughter?
Back when you and I were kids, girls read Seventeen magazine hoping to learn how to look and good get a date. Today, even with cable and the internet, young girls still turn to Seventeen, Cosmo Girl...
View ArticleDo You Know Her Best Friends
How well do we know–and how much do we know about–our daughters’ best friends? The answer to that question seems like a pretty good barometer of where our father-daughter relationship stands. I...
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