Field notes
Short writing from the workshop. Process, fatherhood, what’s on the bench right now.
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What is most important for parents? Part II – A Hard look on our bad habits
In my first post in asking the question, what is most important for new parents to focus on, I answered the question with a simple answer, live as though your kid will emulate your every action and behavior. Leading by living is the simplest way to teach to the young ones. One way to approach
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What is Most Important for a New Parent to Do?
I was recently asked, what would you say is the most important thing for a new parent to do? I usually shy away from attempting to boil down a broad topic into one quick answer. Clearly, there are so many parts involved in trying to parent in a way that leads children to their best
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Feel like your life is about making a living rather than making a life?
This statement hit home for me. At the age of 35, I felt tied to my work…to my desk. I worked as and independent consultant which can be looked at in two ways, you work for yourself and are your own boss, or conversely it may feel like you work for everyone else and all
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Using Gaming to Push Through Failures
In a previous post, I wrote about my response to Julianna Miner assertion that gaming can be perceived in a positive light for youth that may have difficulty fitting in to normal school life. I was bothered by the notion that a solution to fixing difficulties in the social world was to encourage an activity
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Can gaming be good?
This morning, as I reflected on the various roles technologies can take a stranglehold on people’s lives, I was listening to the book “Raising a Screen Smart Kid, Embrace the Good and Avoid the Bad in the Digital Age”. I was a bit surprised during the chapter on gaming in which Julianna Miner describes the
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Everything You Need to Know About Boys, You Learn from Your Dad
Having a daughter is one of the most rewarding and terrifying things you can ever do in life. I had no idea what a life-changing event had taken place when I first laid eyes on my baby girl. I was thrilled, yet part of me was completely horrified because I knew that in just about