Posted in Quotes, adolescence, girl stuff on Dec 26th, 2009 3 Comments »
my 8-year old son to our 12-year old girl neighbor: “why were you feeling sick yesterday?”
“ummm… it’s girl stuff. hard to explain.”
“did you eat your lipstick?”
“yeah, let’s just leave it at that.”
Posted in Fatherhood, addiction, adolescence on Apr 5th, 2008 No Comments »
As a teenager, I used to have a recurring nightmare: that I would succumb.
Succumb to what? To the influences that surrounded me: drugs, depression, delinquency, and many other devilish traps that don’t begin with ‘d’.
I grew up, found confidence in my own skin, and found safe haven from most of those fears. But now [...]
Posted in Bad Dad Chronicles, Movies, adolescence, dancing, parenthacks on Feb 20th, 2008 No Comments »
Dear children,
I love you. I’m proud of you. You bring me joy every single day.
But one day, you will become adolescents. There is no way of stopping this process, it is part of life.
Knowing this truth to be self-evident and inexorable, I want to make a promise to you here today: If you’re anything [...]
