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

• Having “the Talk”
• Playin’ at the Crick:  Kids, Free Play and Safety
• Teaching Kids Everywhere

Child Health

• Kids and “the Pill”
• Children and Milk
• PracticalDad and Growing Pains

Child Safety

• PracticalDad:  Staying for the Practice?
• What to do?  Managing Panhandlers
• Comments on Becoming an Adult Male Volunteer

College

• A Pox on the College Graduates
• Piling On:  Student Loan Rate Increase
• PracticalDad:  Critiquing the FAFSA

Commentary

• A Father’s Wonder
• Andrew Jackson for President
• The Take-away on Greece

Communication

• Dad, Why Are You So Cranky Tonight?
• Rock, Paper, Scissors
• PracticalDance Moms:  Kids, Parents and Coaches

Dad and Mom

• The Missus
• Upgrading Dad’s Hard-Drive
• (huh)Whipped

Discipline

• Is Embarrassment a Disciplinary Tool?
• Controlling Your Kids
• Unpleasantries:  Discipline and Teens

Economics

• PracticalDad Price Index:  Food Prices Accelerating in May
• Stealth Inflation Continues…
• Cannibalizing Our Young

Family / Personal Economics

• Evaluating the Credit Card Offers
• Kids and the Economic Future
• Kids, Christmas and the Recession

Family Management

• (S)Crapbooking
• The Band, Elwood, The Band
• Friend Time vs. Family Time

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