5 Kids, 1 Wife, 1 Grandchild

You know when it hit me? When sports announcers started describing athletes who were my age as "old men" or "crusty veterans....

Once every month or two, we try to have a Family Movie Night. Years ago when the kids were younger, this was a relatively easy thing to pull...

Whenever my wife and I go out to dinner (approximately once every 17 years), we do that thing parents often do where we wolf down our food a...

It's tricky being a father in the 21st century. Guys in my generation are influenced by two very different styles of parenting: On one...

Standing in our upstairs hallway is a 6-foot bookshelf filled from top to bottom with children's books. Most of the time I don't pay...

(1) A while back, I made mention of my fascination with the Duggar family of "19 Kids and Counting" fame. Or is it 20? I don't...

For more than a decade now, I have been a volunteer youth sports coach. This is an important position in which parents and kids alike rely o...