Parenting

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  04/17/2016

  Single-Serving Parent Friends

  This post was originally published on my PhDadBlog. At one point in Fight Club (1999), Edward Norton’s character says the following in a voice-over: Everywhere I travel, tiny life. Single-serving sugar, single-serving cream, single pat of butter. The microwave Cordon Bleu hobby kit. Shampoo-conditioner combos, sample-packaged mouthwash, tiny bars of soap. The people I meet on…

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  03/28/2016

  All You Need is Love

  This post was originally published on my PhDadBlog. I’ve been thinking a lot about love lately. Especially in terms of this quote attributed to ‘Abdu’l-Bahá: “Where there is love, nothing is too much trouble, and there is always time.” Like so much of what ‘Abdu’l-Bahá has said and written, they are incredibly simple words that…

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  03/13/2016

  Transitional Troubles

  This post was originally published on my PhDadBlog. I’ve never liked the terms “Terrible Twos” or “Terrible Threes.” They feel too much like catch-all labels for a certain timeframe when a lot of parents seem to go through some similar-ish struggles with their kids. It makes it too tempting to just throw the label on…

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  09/24/2012

  The Indefinite Recirculation of Bad Children’s Books: A Polemic

  In which I put my “Father” hat on for the first time on this site. In an article titled “Canonicity,” Wendell Harris questions and problematizes the issue of canons in the field of English and literature. In describing the creation, establishment, and maintenance of these supposedly foundational and all-important texts, he describes part of the…