It is one of the oldest jokes in the world and it has about 1,000 variations on the thing. It usually goes something along the lines of, “yes I’m having a daughter and yes I already bought the shotgun.” I have heard this joke so many times that now I...
So when are we giving our kids the wrong kind of encouragement? Many of today’s Millennial’s grew up in the “youth soccer world,” where participation was rewarded with a trophy and there weren’t any winners and losers. That’s fine...
Many of us seem to know inherently what to do but often there are not specific actions attached. For example, if someone said “one of my goals is to lose some weight.” That is a highly worthy goal (provided you are actually overweight to begin with) but...
I noticed that most boys, including myself wanted to be some sort of hero figure while we were growing up. Our heroes fought crime, wore capes and had an awesome gear belt (Batman). Regardless of your actual chosen profession, it turns out that your daughter wants a...
When Charlie Sheen, playing Charlie Harper, starred in the popular TV sitcom 2 1/2 men it was a running joke on the series that he was able to be well supplied with women in his life due to all of the poor fathers out there. Charlie provided a father figure for them...
Middle school is a tough time in a young man’s life. Recently, a popular television show on the Disney Channel, Good Luck Charlie, captured the middle school experience perfectly. In the episode Bob Duncan (played by Eric Allan Kramer), the family patriarch, is...