Of Little Boys, Violent Play, and Pretending to Shoot the Bad Guys
“Perhaps the most important is creating a safe environment in which the bad guys in their little minds are easily vanquished.”
The Kiddy Pool: Playtime: A Neutral Zone
“Our gender expression can be a beautiful and significant part of our selves, but it is not totalizing and never subsumes the spiritual beings we are in Christ.”
Teaching Children a Healthy View of the Human Body
I never want my children to feel repressed when it comes to their bodies, nor do I want them to view their bodies from a more libertine perspective.
Teach Your Children Well: Reflecting on Madeline Levine’s Book and Galatians 5
The Kiddy Pool: A Letter to My Children’s Future Therapists
“I know I’m not perfect; we all get only one perfect Parent, and I’m clearly not it.”
Me, Jessica Simpson, and The Postpartum Road to Recovery
“Why do we love to look at pregnant women but still expect new mothers to look like they haven’t spent the last nine months making a human?”
Mommy, Daddy, Who is Santa Claus?
Five parents share their approach to the famous gift-giver.
What Memes Mean: Darth Vader And The Mechanics Of Revelation
“I forget that I’ve been let in on the story going on behind the story, and that this sort of knowledge ought to be surprising, life-shaping, and earth-shattering.”
When Games Matter: Lucidity, Grief, and My Daughter
“My daughter is going to enter into a world scarred by death. She will experience loss and I won’t be able to walk her through it, she will have to face it on her own–I will only be able to help.”
Dan's Real Life is A Lie
Ben Bartlett on why Dan’s advice industry should go on hiatus for a while.
