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member name: Clay Nichols
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April 29, 2007 08:41 PM EDT -- Last week I rated an invitation to a birthday party that, for the first time in six years, didn't involve a piñata.  I got a call from a friend that has done pretty well for himself inviting . . . more
July 09, 2008 08:56 AM EDT -- I was feeling a little nostalgic and drifting back through years of family summer vacation pictures, including those I have just recently taken.  It struck me in this viewing that the children change . . . more
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
April 03, 2007 12:20 AM EDT -- Oprah Winfrey has selected Cormac McCarthy’s novel The Road as the latest selection to her book club.  I cannot imagine a more unlikely choice, but I’m impressed. I finished the book . . . more
May 28, 2008 11:13 AM EDT -- With Father's Day approaching, it's time to look back to see how the institution of fatherhood has fared in the last 365. What are your nominees for the most significant moment in fatherhood in . . . more
June 03, 2007 10:05 AM EDT -- I have decided, after careful consideration, to resign my post as the Chief Creative Officer of DadLabs.com in order to spend more time with my family.  It has been my pleasure to serve, but I feel . . . 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
February 08, 2007 12:29 PM EST -- Parenting three kids under ten is triage.  You deal with the most critically needy, and the others are just going to have to wait.  With two careers in the house, some things in the family just . . . 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
views: 33 | rating: 10 | comments: 8
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
February 01, 2007 01:45 AM EST -- Due Dads: The Man's Survival Guide to Pregnancy the DVD the I wrote, produced and co-host has won a "2007 Best Products" Award from iParenting Media in the "Just for Dad" category . . . 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
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