My Daughter's Father is a unique perspective on the challenges of parenting from a seldom-told vantage point: The single dad. Sam, a 33-year-old journalist, will write about the joy and heartache of loving and raising — and sharing — the most precious part of his life, Maddie. This candid essay about the anxiety of knowing that every decision helps mold his child into the woman she will become comes from a father who has grudgingly acknowledged that, no matter how hard we try, we parents will never have it all figured out.
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One of the more difficult aspects of parenting, I've found, is helping Maddie appreciate all her blessings. The girl wants for nothing. Every Christmas is a lottery jackpot; you'd think Santa tired as he reached her tree and decided to just leave...
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It's an amazing time to be an American and the father of a young child. As a journalist, I have an insatiable appetite for information and spend copious amounts of time consuming it. What's worse, I'm a big time politics junkie. I can't...
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This post has been an extremely long time in coming. I’ve opined and gone on work-related tangents for the last couple of months and have completely lost sight of why I began writing here in the first place. Thus, I've included an excerpt from my...
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This is the last of a four-part series. When I was 11 or 12, I was riding with my little brother and my father in his pickup when a cat ran into the road. I exploded when I felt the bump — I was a very sensitive boy — and my father, in his effort to quell...
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This is the third of a four-part series. Maddie once questioned why her new baby cousin was born. "Was it hot in there?" Few things garner as much attention — or beg more questions — from small children exploring their new world than life and...
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This is the first in a three-part series. I read an article a couple weeks ago about lying to children, when it's appropriate and when the truth is the better route. I'm still trying to wrap my head around this, the idea that lying to my daughter...
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