From the category archives:

Being a Dad

The Quiet Coyote

September 16, 2009 Being a Dad

My daughter’s teacher uses rock horns to get the kindergarteners to quiet down.
I can’t help but feel like, in some way, someone is doing it wrong. Or that her teacher is actually Ronny James Dio.
The Quiet Coyote
(via morrowplanet. Cross-posted to my tumblr)

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A: “Pooping Pandas!”

September 14, 2009 Being a Dad

Q: What is a delightful new exclamation that your daughter has learned since starting school. Ex: “Pooping Pandas! This is some delicious chocolate milk!” N.B. “Great Scott!” or “Egads!”
Posted via email from morrowplanet’s posterous

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Make a museum

January 25, 2009 Being a Dad

My daughter claims she wants to be an artist, and decided (all on her own) that she wanted to create a museum featuring her favorite "cruisers" (her word for art projects) that she had made in the past year.
So she went through the archives, selected a bunch of her favorites, and we decided to [...]

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“What I Want for You — and Every Child in America”

January 18, 2009 Being a Dad

I don’t know, I’m guessing this has been linked to all over the Web, but in case you haven’t seen it here is Mr. Obama’s (open) letter to his daughter’s upon assuming the presidency. Would have been hard to say it any better, I imagine.
PARADE Magazine | Barack Obama: A Letter to My Daughters.

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The Green Light

January 14, 2009 Being a Dad

In the middle of a cul de sac in the town where we used to live is a little island of grass and a single, nondescript street lamp that holds the stature of myth in our family.
I speak of The Green Light.
The Green Light, so named and mythologized by my daughter at two [...]

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“The number 143 means ‘I love you.’”

January 11, 2009 Being a Dad

While we’re talking about uber-nice people, let’s take a minute to fondly remember all those quiet moments we spent in front of the tube as children (or even adults) watching Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood.
And, courtesy of Mental Floss (via CNN, of all places), a list of “15 reasons Mr. Rogers was best neighbor ever.”

This particularly blew [...]

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Good rules

January 9, 2009 Being a Dad

Maybe, just maybe, the best tumblog of the year.
1001 rules for my unborn son.
Let’s get some things straight before I get old and uncool.
Just for the record, I do not currently have any unborn children, so don’t get any ideas.
(via Shawn Blanc)

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