Childhood ends. Last 52 “Age 11 (Grade Six)” articles

Dad’s toolkit

1. Parenting is never a democracy
2. The daddy tax
3. Recognize the deteriorating mental state of the single dad
4. Parenting is not one thing, it’s a million little things
5. Daddy’s guide to a threesome
6. Custody and COVID
7. I am perfectly flawed
8. Are you their obstacle?
9. Please encourage your daughter to be friends with boys
10. Blink and a decade has passed
11. My dark place
12. Parenting isn’t about the parent (Case study 7): Calling mom’s new boyfriend ‘dad’

Behavior & boundaries

13. What you’re really doing when your face is in the phone
14. Your business is my business, but my business is still my business
15. Immovable object vs. unstoppable force

Learning

16. Color outside the lines
17. Money is everything; money isn’t everything
18. Does the child really fear failure or is it the parent?
19. Five things my child must learn
20. Step into the punch
21. Parallel lines do meet at infinity
22. It’s not practicing to learn, but learning to practice
23. Performance anxieties
24. Winning doesn’t mean coming first
25. How to lose her heart in 10 days
26. Why working at McDonald’s is a great idea
27. This is not a drill
28. Being a busker refuels her cello passion
29. The difference between privacy and secrecy

Social

30. She wrote her name on my to-do list
31. Not everyone who shits on you is your enemy
32. Please encourage your daughter to be friends with boys
33. The benefits of step-siblings
34. I don’t tell my daughter to call her mom anymore
35. Don’t judge my daughter; the world will do that soon enough

Emotional

37. Your child may need therapy
38. It’s not your responsibility to make someone happy
39. Self-harm is a real thing in girls

Physical

39. The birds and the bees (Part 8): Sexuality is a spectrum
40. The birds and the bees (Part 9): Sexual assault
41. The birds and the bees (Part 10): Parental intercourse (I)
42. The birds and the bees (Part 11): Parental intercourse (II)
43. Tweens and their relationship to foods
44. Explaining death (Part 5): She discovered my mortality
45. Explaining death (Part 6): What happens after we die?
46. Explaining death (Part 7): Death of a father
47. Is it odd for me to have pictures of tampons on my phone?

The ex-wife

48. Why your ex-wife hates you
49. Anger is a choice
50. Your ex’s boyfriend will never replace you
51. Talking trash about your ex in front of your (now older) child
52. When Father’s Day wasn’t

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