Practical Dad

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Basics for Dads

• Fathers and Fear
• Outsourcing Fatherhood:  Passing Along Knowledge
• Dads and the Bedtime Routine

Child Development

• Does My Kid Need Deodorant Already?
• When Should Kids Start to Concentrate On One Sport?
• PracticalDad:  When Can I Stop Taking My Daughter Into the Men’s Room?

Child Health

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

Child Safety

• Staying Near the Sick Kid
• PracticalDad’s Law Of Unintended Consequences
• Notes on Bicycle Safety - When Junior’s Not On the Same Level

College

• Debt-Free U
• Should I Use Home Equity To Help Pay For College?
• College Debt:  The UK And a Look Ahead

Commentary

• This Father’s Fear
• What’s a Real Dad Look Like?
• What Do I Really Have To Teach Them?  (Part 3)

Communication

• But Mom Said…(!)
• PracticalDad’s Language:  I Can’t Believe That I Said That
• Apologizing to the Kids

Dad and Mom

• Inside Your Wife’s Head:  Defragging the Hard Drive
• First Time Events and Checking with Mom
• Dad’s View versus Mom’s View / Example #2

Discipline

• PracticalDad Discipline:  The 25 Cent Solution
• Can I Take the Remote Away?
• Fatherhood and Discipline:  It’s Not Like Television

Economics

• Fiat:  A Car and a Currency
• PracticalDad’s Guide to Following the Economic Issues
• The PracticalDad Guide to the Credit Crunch

Family / Personal Economics

• PracticalDad’s Shopping For School Clothing and Supplies
• Spending Time On the Cheap
• Shopping Smart - Summer Menus

Family Management

• PracticalDad and Vacation
• Do You Write the Site or Does the Site Write You?
• PracticalDad Solution:  The Details Sheet

Father Lessons

• Fatherhood Lesson #5:  Stuff Flows Downhill
• Lesson #4:  Dad’s Follow-through is Crucial
• Lesson #3:  Your Child is a Blank Slate

Housework

• Why Do Housework?
• Multitasking the Housework
• Handling the Flea Infestation

Humor

• PracticalDad Physics
• Why Isn’t It Done?  Pinball
• Hangin’ with the Kids

PracticalDad Solutions

• PracticalDad Solutions:  Uniform Hooks
• “Do I Have To Go?”  Taking the Kids Along
• PracticalDad:  How Do I Avoid New Experience Meltdowns?

School

• A Father’s Thoughts on Bullies
• PracticalDad::  Just Blame the Teachers?
• Checking the Returned Schoolwork

Youth Culture

• Bobblehead
• Keeping Up With The Kids’ Electronics
• PracticalDad and Re-evaluating the Electronics