Blogger takes his son to Hooters

I go to Hooters for the wings. I also read Playboy for the articles. _ Okay, so this guy named Bob Elston wrote a piece about fatherhood in USA Today . He took his 11-year-old son to Hooters to gauge his son’s phase of sexual interest and development. That’s a cool dad, in my book. But some chicks are savaging this guy as if he took his son into a strip club! Blogger Debbie Schlussel , for example, writes Elston “is competing with the Heene balloon boy family, but in the sleaze

Weekend Wander At Book Dads (10-4-09)

Weekend Wander is a weekly roundup of links, events and resources related to books, reading, literacy and dads too. We would like to explore and share ideas from both the book blogging and the dad blogging communities. Here is what we have to share this week: The Gay Uncle’s Guide to Parenting: a lighthearted memoir of flippant advice about raising kids, or… http://bookdads.com/MF6T Yay! @taralazar: AND TANGO MAKES THREE, the top banned book in the US, gets huge surge in sales! http

Boy, You’re on Your Way

The secret’s out that Peter Leonard, author of the thrillers QUIVER and the new TRUST ME , is the son of none other than crime-fiction superstar Elmore Leonard. Here, the younger Leonard discusses how he was determined to make his writing career take off on his own terms. I remember when I was 9 years old, going down the stairs to the basement, seeing my dad at his desk, white cinder block wall behind him, concrete floor. He was writing longhand on unlined, 8½ x 11 yellow paper, typewrite

Is Divorce Coparenting Easy?

A Dad’s House reader politely pointed out that I have it much easier as a divorced man who coparents with my ex, than a full time single dad. To wit: I don’t mean to diminish what you do as a single dad, but you don’t do it alone. You have 1/2 custody and they have a mom. If you think what you do is hard — try being a guy and doing it all. Everyone expects (rightly or wrongly) that women do this but you rarely see a man doing it all. My boyfriend is barely making it – he’s exhausted an

Links We Love, And One We Don’t

Filed under: That's entertainment School's in, but your kids still need playtime. Credit: Jupiterimages Virtual Valium. The playground can be a very very scary place. Poor Maggie Simpson is having a terrible time socializing with the other tots but her oblivious dad, Homer, of course misinterprets the situation. This scene from last season's The Simpsons captures a moment we're all probably guilty of from the perspective of the little ones. Crib Sheet. Nurse P

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