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member name: Clay Nichols
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September 25, 2007 10:14 AM EDT -- Serving alcohol at a kid's birthday party (to the adults, mostly)?  An absolute requirement?  A really bad idea? Both? We're filming a segment on this topic in the DadLab Studio today.  . . . more
July 31, 2007 10:27 AM EDT -- According to mainstream media, parenting is a bit like trying to carry an enormous cardboard box with nothing but a cannon ball in it: minor shifts precipitate a sudden problem.  At the moment, the . . . more
January 30, 2008 12:26 PM EST -- Day one was marked by a  clear sense of unease, a nervousness just beneath the surface.  I first picked up on this when I began dinner preparations.  Coop, who usually busies himself with . . . more
September 18, 2007 10:31 PM EDT -- A significant watershed in my parenting life has been reached.  Two of my kids have soccer games this weekend.  At the same time. I'll be with my oldest.  I'm sure it will be a . . . more
December 03, 2007 10:46 PM EST -- When my oldest was entering Kindergarten, there was just one thing that I really wanted him to learn – not reading or math or social studies or science.  Good values are fine and all, and . . . more
January 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST -- I took one look at the thing and sprained both ankles and fractured my tibia.  Because skateboards are not nearly unstable and dangerous enough, someone went ahead and invented the Ripstik . . . more
February 03, 2008 01:21 PM EST -- This is officially Not Funny Anymore.  The little punks have given me this flu garbage.  I've had it. I surrender.  They can have McDonalds every night, and watch all the TV they want. . . . more
March 25, 2008 10:22 PM EDT -- What use is it for a blogger to go to Disney, if not to come back and write a long, snarky takedown of the Happiest Place on Earth?  So here it comes. I didn't like the coffee. Is that . . . more
Home Alone: Daddy Style
by Clay Nichols
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July 04, 2008 09:09 AM EDT -- My family has been away on vacation for the past week, leaving me behind to have a career.  For a family man, time away from the domestic cohabitants is always disorienting, but remaining behind . . . more
February 04, 2008 06:08 PM EST -- The studies hailing the health and well-being benfits of family dinner are numerous.  For children in the studies, frequent family dinners correlate with decreased alcohol, tobacco, drug use, eating . . . more
September 11, 2007 02:26 PM EDT -- Nothing screams family and early childhood like Las Vegas.  So I guess it is no surprise that the organizers of the ABC Kids Expo hold their annual trade show in Sin City.  Every year, manufacturers . . . more
September 05, 2007 07:34 AM EDT -- My oldest child, Wilson, sits in one of the two fighting chairs in the wide open stern of the Banshee with his fishing rod bent over, hauling up and reeling down, celebrating his ninth birthday.  . . . more
October 23, 2007 11:13 PM EDT -- I sometimes wonder why I’ve kind of gone off the whole deep end with parenting – why I decided to leave a perfectly good teaching job for this whole goofy DadLabs interweb video show .  . . . more
January 22, 2008 11:46 AM EST -- On a typical MLK day, the kids accompany their mom on the march in downtown Austin. My observations are usually made from the office, unfortunately. Yesterday, however, the weather was miserable, unfit . . . more
August 29, 2007 12:42 AM EDT -- Boy, has fatherhood changed, what with Start Over Dads or SODs (men over 50 starting second families), couples waiting later in life to have kids, working dads taking kids with them on the job, and that’s . . . more
September 25, 2007 10:47 PM EDT -- The parenting imagination is a powerful thing.  Unassisted by any technology, I was able to vividly imagine every grievous injury and fatal illness experienced by all humanity from the Common Era . . . more
November 06, 2007 11:20 PM EST -- Soccer let me have a couple of hours off Saturday morning to moderate a panel at the Texas Book Festival that went under the title "Father Knows Worst."  On the panel: novelist Dominic . . . more
November 20, 2007 02:39 PM EST -- One of my kids approaches me with a request.  He or she knows that there is a range of possible outcomes, from getting ignored to getting referred to another adult to actually getting me off my butt . . . more
November 28, 2007 10:54 PM EST -- On the always solid assumption that mild weather had settled in for good, my wife and I planned a short trip over Thanksgiving just down to San Antonio where we would meet my parents and my sister.  . . . more
December 17, 2007 10:42 PM EST -- A quick poll of the DadLabs offices revealed a surprisingly low levelof concern about lead in children's toys. Most of this confidencederives from dads feeling like their kids are past the "everything . . . more
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