Temper Tantrum Terrorists
Is your desire to avoid confrontation turning your kids into tantrum terrorists? Little Isabella doesn’t want to leave the park. Best I can tell, her Mom has reached the fourth two-minute warning for...
View ArticleMarried Man Muses Over His First Full-Body Massage
The thought of getting his first full-body massage gives blogger Kevin Harris the giggles and shits. Let me start by admitting the following: although I am 37, a father of four, and an employer to...
View ArticleFailure Is An Option
Kids need to be able to fail in order to learn how to succeed. I was inspired to write this post, one I have had half-started for years, by this recent article in The Atlantic about letting children...
View ArticleA Husband’s Job Is To Create Emotional Safety
Life coach Steve Horsmon reveals a secret: guys, your wife expects you to know what emotional safety means to her. Emotional safety is important to both men and women. Without it we feel unsure about...
View ArticleCrying Makes a Man Feel Whole
Tweet Tears of joy, disappointment, love, or loss–all add texture to man’s being. ______ Too many “men” aren’t whole. It was the bottom of the final inning. I was 12. Playing for the Buchanan Little...
View ArticleThe Worst Video Game You’ve Never Played
Tweet Historian Oliver Lee Bateman discusses how the latest version of Super Smash Bros. has already broken the hearts of its most devoted fans. Super Smash Bros. Brawl, a Wii game that has given...
View ArticleWhen Do You Stop Cutting the Crust?
Tor Constantino tries to be ‘dadmirable’ with sandwiches, balancing disappointment and teachable moments for his kids. ___ Our oldest daughter is now 12 years old, which seems hard to believe, and she...
View Article3 Ways Being Nice Will Hurt Your Relationship
Thomas Fiffer reveals 3 ways being nice is the worst thing you can do to your partner. ___ Being nice is perhaps the #1 virtue instilled in us during early childhood by our well-meaning parents and...
View ArticleA Dad Talks Openly About a Miscarriage and the Effect It Had on Him
Dads can often be forgotten in the devastation of a miscarriage. One dad shares his experience in hopes of helping other dads going through it. — October is Pregnancy and Infant Loss Awareness...
View ArticleHaving it All Means Surrendering to Despair, Disillusionment and Desire
It’s not enough to think positive. Tamara Star reveals why. — What I’m about to share with you is the antithesis of everything we’ve been taught. It’s my own ah ha moment that I know in every cell...
View ArticleOn Plans to Build My Daughter a Tipi
Speaking as a father to a young daughter, Adam Hughes explores the gap between expectation and reality–parental promise and parental failure. — On Plans to Build My Daughter a Tipi It will have to be...
View ArticleDoors
Kris Bigalk demonstrates how potent one simple metaphor can be. — Doors He sends me photographs of doors each day. Today’s was cerulean, chipping, with a cast iron grate in front of a square window at...
View ArticleThe Fallacy of Comparing Pain
Is it possible, or even worthwhile, to rank your pain against the pain of others? ________ As social creatures, we often think and relate through a hierarchical lens. We conceptualize organizational...
View ArticleEncouraging the Art of Self-Forgiveness in our Boys
Connie K. Grier shares the power of self-forgiveness and teaching our sons how to forgive. – Our sons are often under societal pressure in many areas of their life. Males have the responsibility to...
View ArticleWhy Follow your Dreams’ is Terrible Advice
Don’t listen to anyone who tells you to follow your dreams. Following my dreams led to years of frustration and dead-ends. My life improved when I gave up on my dreams. ___ Big Dreams are for Disney...
View ArticleHow to Stop Thinking Everyone Has It Better Than You After Your Breakup
Breakup expert Matt Shumate wants you to stop comparing yourself with other guys—so the lovers you want can see your amazing gifts. ___ Comparison is the death of joy. —Mark Twain ___ The Ego is a...
View ArticleDear Son, I Hope You Fail
View image | gettyimages.com Failure is the key to finding yourself, and ultimately success. This dad shows his son, and us, how. ______ I hope you fail creatively and spectacularly. I hope you find...
View ArticleHow Do You Really Handle Failure?
Theresa Byrne helps you examine how you handle disappointment. Do you have “emotional competency”? — What do you do when something you’ve been counting on, hoping for, and working towards doesn’t work...
View ArticleOnline Dating: Avoiding Disappointment When You Finally Meet Offline
Embed from Getty Images So it’s finally time to meet offline, how exciting!! Minimize your worry (and disappointment) by taking some simple pre-date precautions. — Thanks to the internet, people have...
View ArticleHow to Prevail Over The Paralyzing Post-Divorce Failure Emotional Cocktail
Divorce has hit and in the aftermath, leaves a feeling all its own. How do you get out of it? Bill Douglas has some ideas. — Emotions can be good, they can be not so good, and sometimes they can...
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