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Why Reading About Parenting is Bad for You
By Daddy Clay Friday, February 3rd, 2012
Reading parenting columns is a dangerous business. You should go back to playing Fruit Ninja.
In my most recent experience, a quick read of a piece in a major national newspaper nearly resulted in: one car crash, one house fire, and several lacerations.
The column in question was of the kind that makes you feel inadequate. (There are only two kinds. The other kind is usually written by a bumbler about his or her parenting misadventures, inducing the reader to feel smug and superior. Sorry for making you feel so inadequate all these years.) The author opined that she was sick of her kids just doing all the dishes, she wanted them to graduate to preparing entire meals for the family. Read the rest of this entry »
Sh*t Runners Say, Dad Version
By Daddy Clay Friday, January 27th, 2012
I ran 20 miles last Saturday, and plan the same for this weekend.
Why? Why would anyone do that? Especially a guy with a busy family?
I’ve heard a lot of dads (and some moms) try to answer this question. None have been all that satisfying to me. My own attempts to answer, perhaps representative, are no less so.
Obvious (non) answer: Marathon training. Okay. Again. Why? Read the rest of this entry »
Dad at a Car Show: Personality Disorder?
By Daddy Clay Thursday, January 12th, 2012
Attending my first car show (as I did this week — the North American International Auto Show in Detroit as the guest of Ford) stimulated three facets of my personality: the inner child, the dad and the businessman.
Inner Child
When I travel, I grab a handful of car magazines. When I get the Sunday New York Times, the first thing I read is the car review at the back of the sports section. I’m never happier or more keyed up than when I’m in the throes of researching, testing and buying a new car. My love of cars is childish — having fallen head over heels when I was a kid and my dad pulled up to the house in a new, silver 928. I loved that car, and cars in general ever since. Read the rest of this entry »
A Parenting Dis-Kinect: Coming Around 360
By Daddy Clay Friday, January 6th, 2012
I’m thinking about the challenges faced by previous generations of parents. I’m thinking about parents that had to cope with the arrival of Rock ‘n’ Roll or the Sexual Revolution; parents that had to send their kids off to the factory or the draft.
I’m thinking about these parents as I try to figure out how to attach the Kinect Sensor to the XBOX.
If you had to distill the greatest challenges faced by this generation parents down to a single word, would it start with a lowercase i? Read the rest of this entry »
