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So today I was helping my oldest finalize his housing plans for college. My middle son is trying to learn how to drive. (And I’m trying to learn how not to instill therapy in his future.) My [...]

Sometimes one conversation can change everything. When I first found out I was going to be a dad, I became a nervous wreck. My own family didn't give me much of a blueprint for what healthy [...]

There's only two and a half years from my youngest to oldest three biological kids. Let me paint this picture in practicality on a trip to Target when they were little. I figured out the “kid [...]

"Words create worlds." I wish I was the first person to state this, but it's a concept that has anonymously embedded itself into my head from several places I've read it. It raises a powerful [...]

Jerry Seinfeld and Kevin Hart aren't just funny and famous - they're also parents. In a conversation they had before a camera, Kevin Hart mentioned a question his daughter asked him: "Dad, are we [...]

Please don't judge me. For two days, my wife and I walked around with one of our kids on a stretchy leash. You've probably seen these human fishing lures. I imagine one day it'll become how an [...]

You made it! Summer is FINALLY upon us. Welcome to the smell of driveway campfires and fresh cut lawn. Before you know it, you may even be hearing ice cream trucks playing that one song over and [...]

Back, back, back in the day, families generally lived near their extended relatives. In some countries where land and heritage are priorities, this is still the case. But because we in the U.S. [...]

  It's what we don't see coming that scares us the most. Because suddenly, everything can change. This is the fear that we all stuff down... even when it rears its head. At any given moment, the [...]

All the hot dogs, burgers and shakes you can consume. That sounds like the ultimate job perk to the average teenager, doesn't it? My son certainly thought so. He doesn't anymore. But before we [...]