Posts Tagged ‘kids’
It has been a while. It has been a time. What a time. It’s hard for me to say where I have been. I don’t want to say where I’ve been, but I can give you a glimpse. If the flow of this talk (can we call it that?) seems out of order it’s […]
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Wanting Within, Wanting Without
I have a tendency to fall victim to the most prevalent diseases in the Western world: I am ill of want. I’ve got a case of the “Gimme Gimme’s”. The moguls of media have me dead in their sights and have hit me with a barrage of advertisements that me sick of the things I have, and […]
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A father’s job is so poorly defined in modern western society. I don’t want to romanticize the past, but it seems like once upon a time, a father’s job was to go to work and bring home a paycheck, teach the child how to play a sport and maybe how to fight, and if he […]
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Tags: dad, expectations, family, father, Freud, guilt, Hierarchy of Needs, kids, man, Maslow, mom, mother, Parent, parenting, protection, Robert Frost, social roles
Of Heroes and Defeat
My Dad, my Hero I have this incredible job! I get to be a real live hero! Or at least I will try to be. I know that kids look up to their parents (by design, by default, or by some other loving magic) and I love this feeling that I get when one of […]
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A quick post before I dash (read: meander slowly) off to try to get my errands run. This morning I was feeling particularly slow. Slow enough that the draw of my bed seemed too strong, and that I was attached to an invisible anchor that weighed more than my poor beleaguered heart could break itself free from. […]
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Tags: anchor, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, bipolar, bipolar II, dad, expectations, explorers, father, forgive, forgiveness, guilt, honest, honesty, kids, mood, mood disorder, realistic, salvation
You Are Here
It sounds like such an obvious statement: ‘You are here’. Of course I am! Where else would I be? But that’s the catch. Where do we spend our attention most of the time? Worrying about dinner, or the bills, or whether your mate is still angry with you for what you did/didn’t do, said, […]
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Tags: bipolar, bipolar II, breathe, Buchwald. Camus, Coelho, dad, dwelling, expectations, father, forgive, forgiveness, future, guilt, kids, moment, mood, mood disorder, past, present, realistic
Guilt – It’s Who You Are
Guilt is defined by many to be the feeling of doing something wrong or an inability to meet some standard. As a dad with a mood disorder I often feel immense guilt because of the great expectations I have for myself. I’m sure most parents feel this guilt about some things, but I can tell you that […]
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