TikTok There’s a common theme I’ve seen among male/female parents in my years of parenting. A baby is born to an excited mom and an excited dad. Mom gets eight weeks of maternity leave (if she’s lucky) while dad gets two (if he’s lucky). Over the first few weeks of the little one’s life, mom...
TikTok Hey fellow Millennials: do y’all remember sex ed? Specifically, the sex ed we got around fifth grade, where the boys went to one room, the girls went to another, and we all learned about puberty. Well. Some of us learned about puberty as a general concept. The girls. A lot of the boys didn’t...
TikTok Pretty much every parent I’ve met (myself included) likes to avoid punishing their kids whenever possible. It doesn’t feel good. That said, I don’t think I’ve ever met a parent who’s never punished their kids at all. It’s the ideal, sure, but it’s hard to actually pull off. (We are, despite what our children...
Huntstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images There is nothing funnier or sadder in this world than a fragile man. I don’t mean a sensitive man, or a medically delicate man. I mean a man who feels he is constantly fighting for his life to maintain some sort of tough guy status. It’s sad because, gosh, what an awful way...