Category: Parenting
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Parenting: Our Political Common Ground
So much divides us. Politics divides us. Religion divides us. Money divides us. Ethnicity divides us. Geography divides us. Social mores divide us. Ignorance divides us. Fear divides us. More than ever in my lifetime, it seems that we are defined by what we oppose, by our juxtaposition against –…
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Be Good, Be Nice, Be You, Have Fun
Every morning when I part with my sons , the last thing I tell them is to “Be good, be nice, be you and have fun.” It started with the older boy a couple of years ago, something I’d say when I dropped him off at daycare. Our younger son is only just…
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These Aren’t the Spurs You’re Looking For. Move Along.
My older son knows not one, but two Tottenham Hotspur fight songs by heart. He actually learned them two years ago, back when my sickness was still new and I was extraordinarily contagious. Sickness? Yeah. Spurs Fever. How did this happen? Long story short: NOT because of Bill Simmons. Long…
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The Life and Times of Travis Harper (Or How Jorge Posada, Gary Sheffield, Alex Rodriguez and Hideki Matsui Taught Me to Keep Calm & Carry On)
It’s almost soccer season again. This will be my older son’s fourth at the YMCA. It’ll be the first for our younger son, who seems genuinely eager to get it right. He only picked up the ball every eight seconds the last time we popped out for a kick-around in the…
Carter Gaddis, Writer & Editor 
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