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Sunday, November 25, 2012

Sunday Haiku: Planning Ahead

My midlife crisis
car will be a black Volvo
P Eighteen Hundred.
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Labels: car, rites of passage, Sunday haiku

Monday, November 19, 2012

Monday Chart: Joke Filter


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Labels: age, chart, joke

Monday, November 5, 2012

Monday chart: Generations and Fears


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Labels: chart, safety

Sunday, November 4, 2012

Sunday Haiku: Education Funding

The wise stifle coughs
while counting their schools' box tops
for education.
Posted by JFo at 10:56 AM No comments:
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Labels: Box Tops, Sunday haiku
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The name of this blog is a political statement about fatherhood. Regardless of the progress toward gender equality that has occurred over the last several decades, one stereotype persists and may be getting worse: moms are good parents and dads are incompetent boobs who sometimes babysit. Poppycock, I say. Or an excuse for dads who would like to be viewed as numskulls so that they don't have to parent their kids. Dads are parents too, and I know some who are very good at it.

I'm neither a stay-at-home dad nor do I work full time. I work part time, and I'm the primary parent for the foreseeable future. The primary competent parent, I hope it is not presumptuous to say.

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