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Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Trust your instinct? Nurture Shock. Part 1.

Posted 26 March 2010 | By James | Categories: Books, Career, Discipline, Education, Sleep, doodad reviews, doodad topics, doodad wrote it | 4 Comments

I stumbled across a new book called Nurture Shock: New Thinking About Children. When I saw the author’s name — Po Bronson — I was happy to see he’d been thoughtful enough to write a new one just for me, so I picked it up.

Are you raising a bratty kid? – The Globe and Mail

Posted 30 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Discipline, doodad read it | No Comments

Are you raising a bratty kid? – The Globe and Mail.
Another great article from the Globe. Be sure to read the quiz at the end to identify your own parenting style. Now that I’m backboning life on the homefront, it’s probably time I figure out how to actually have a backbone.

Happy SAHD – Documentary Trailer

Happy SAHD – Documentary Trailer

Posted 16 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Career, Discipline, Health, Time management, Uncategorized, doodad read it, doodad video | No Comments

A brief trailer for a new documentary about 21st Century Stay-At-Home Dads.

Globe & Mail | My grandkid’s a real brat

Posted 05 November 2009 | By James | Categories: Discipline, doodad read it | No Comments

My grandkid’s a real brat – The Globe and Mail.
Love this article.
“Finally, I couldn’t take it any more. I leaned forward, brought my big, mean, bearded face close to the child’s, gazed at him with my beady, bloodshot, malice-filled eyes and said, in a voice full of quiet menace: ‘Listen, you’re bothering me; you’re bothering [...]

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