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Into adolescence. All new 52 “Age 12 (Grade Seven)” articles

Familiar and new conversations, but whole new approaches. As her dad, you’re gonna get schooled on her world of things! Expect everything to be challenged and changed.

Dad’s toolkit

  1. It doesn’t get easier. You just get better
  2. I was the other man
  3. Time to ditch some parent friends!
  4. Bad idea to outsource parenting
  5. What depression looks like from the inside
  6. I told my daughter about my depression
  7. When it is good to compare your daughter to her peers?
  8. She may be small, but she is the consequence of grand events
  9. Good intention without a go-forward plan is just another road to purgatory
  10. Mama bears and tiger dads
  11. You know she’s constantly seeking your approval, right?
  12. When sex is withheld as leverage
  13. Relationships and why I enter into them
  14. It’s my party and I’ll cry if I want to
  15. My Achilles’ heel gave me an armor

Behavior & boundaries

  1. “Dad, I don’t need you to walk me to school.”
  2. Action reaction
  3. Fraying tapestry (I): father/daughter
  4. Fraying tapestry (II): mother/daughter

Learning

  1. My daughter likes to read again
  2. Clean up your shit, literally
  3. A crash course in social democracy
  4. Please teach your child to write in cursive
  5. A forgetful child
  6. Fear is not a viable teaching tool
  7. Not all coaches are the same
  8. The Incredibles—they are not
  9. Arrogance & Ignorance is the modern Pride & Prejudice
  10. Attack the opinion, but respect the person

Social

  1. When grandparents undermine the parents
  2. She dressed up as me for Halloween!
  3. So, we’re dressing each other now?
  4. Opting out of family gatherings
  5. Has my daughter turned into a mean girl?
  6. Better you teach your son these lessons than for me to do it
  7. Like a girl
  8. Coming out
  9. People don’t change; they adapt or else

Emotional

  1. The Electra Complex
  2. Sports anxieties are very real (I)
  3. Sports anxieties aren’t just about sports—it’s something else (II)
  4. Your feelings are your truth
  5. Why guilt trips work
  6. Sports anxieties and how to overcome them (III)
  7. Sharing is caring. Does it still apply?
  8. Living vicariously can also be beneficial

Physical

  1. No, you can’t get more piercings
  2. The birds and the bees (Part 12): Explaining pornography
  3. The birds and the bees (Part 13): Can boys and girls be just friends?
  4. Yes, I track my daughter

The ex-wife

  1. When one parent wants to move
  2. What leftover resentment looks like

 

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