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Parenting

Key West Wisdom #2: Invest in Your Marriage

by Jason 07.09.2010 Key West Wisdom

In this video tip, we talk about the crucial importance of investing in your marriage relationship.

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Life Will Be Easier When…

by Jason 05.16.2010 Maintain Perspective

Ever find yourself saying, “Life will be easier when…”? If you’re a parent, you can fill in the blank mighty easily. Life will be easier when… …he can sleep through the night. …she can feed herself. …he can tell us where it hurts. …she goes to school. …he makes it to the NBA and buys [...]

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The Amazingly Stupendous Do-Over

by Kim 05.05.2010 Be Honest

Remember the “do-over” in childhood? Often applied to a “too close to call” play in a childhood game, do-overs were often used liberally by kids who hated to lose. Lucy called for a do-over this morning. She woke up early and crabby (or as I like to call her, “sensitive.”) She was touch-and-go about everything. [...]

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Busyness Is Killing Us (Or Why We Should All Take Up Fishing)

by Jason 04.25.2010 Be Honest

I was talking to a friend the other day who works as a youth minister for a church. I asked him what the biggest issues the teens in his community are dealing with. His answer came quickly. “Drugs,” he said. He detailed the overwhelming prevalence of prescription drugs, and went on to tell me stories [...]

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Life’s Little Traffic Jams

by Jason 02.17.2010 Have Faith

[This post originally appeared on Dad-O-Matic, a cool site for Dads, by Dads.] We bought our daughter one of those little primary-colored push car toys for her first birthday. It gets great gas mileage and holds up amazingly well in crashes, of which there have been many so far. The other day, she got herself [...]

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Open Letter to Alton Brown (and Dads Everywhere)

by Jason 01.31.2010 Life Balance

I recently got a copy of Good Eats: The Early Years by Alton Brown. To paraphrase Ron Burgundy, if you don’t think it’s the greatest show on television, I will fight you. As a Food Network junkie, I dig Alton’s quirky, fun, no-nonsense style. Between writing books, filming Good Eats, hosting Iron Chef America and [...]

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The First Year of Fatherhood: One Dad’s Review

by Jason 01.20.2010 Jason's Random Musings

Well, we did it. My wife and I made it to the one-year mark. (Oh, and so did Lucy.) The first two weeks seemed like a millennium, the last fifty seemed like a millisecond. So, what have I learned, if anything? • It sounds so dang cliché to say, “It’s harder than I imagined, but [...]

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