Still hard to believe that Stan isn’t going to knock on the door, or yell “Hey Big Guy” across the road. I was driving into the city today for an appointment. Coming south, I remembered a time when we ended up following Stan for about 15 miles. My daughter and I were in our old…
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New dads’ post-partum depression is real–and ridiculed
Although this article from the Guardian talks mostly about reaction in the UK to a study showing that new dads may get postpartum depression, I’ve come across many of the Neanderthal attitudes expressed here in my work with fathers in the U.S. What is your response to learning that there is a treatable but often…
It’s all fun and games–until someone dies
I’ve been reading about the new middle-school craze–the Choking Game, which involves strangling (one’s self or someone else). The goal is to produce the light-headed feeling that happens when oxygen to the brain is cut off and the “rush” that happens when the choke is released and the oxygen flows back in. As one who,…