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Dear Jack Peter and Reid Parker – I feel like an explanation is in order. Or at least some clarity. I love comic books. Even though you are both younger than three, you both probably know this by now. That …
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Alan Kercinik has been a Chicagoan his whole life and a dad since 2009. He finds it easy to relate to his two boys, since he still likes most things from his childhood. All opinions here are his own, to the relief of his wife, employer, family and majority of his friends.
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Category Archive: Fatherhood
Sep
23
2011
The Father’s Prayer For His Son(s)
Toward the end of Bossypants, Tina Fey writes a prayer about what she hopes for her daughter. It’s funny and sweet and true. With little guy #2 less than two weeks away — unless he decides to make an entrance …
Sep
16
2011
“Dada. Whoz God?”
Jack has found religion. It was on his bookshelf, the one in the hall outside his bedroom. The boy has been over-gifted in the book department. I’ve had neither the heart or the inclination to return any of them. That …
Jul
27
2011
What Captain America Taught Me About Fatherhood
It should surprise just about no one when I say that I saw Captain America: The First Avenger on Saturday. I dug it. It’s one of the better movies I’ve seen this summer and definitely one of the better superhero …
Jul
18
2011
Telling Stories
There are stories from our childhoods that our parents like to tell. Sometimes, they’re just funny stories. Sometimes, they point to the people we become and always were. I heard mine repeatedly. About the time I escaped from my crib …
Jul
01
2011
Dada and Jack at the Movies: Cars 2
One of the problems with raising a child right now — and granted, this a small irritant at best — is that whenever the boy sees something on television, he thinks that it is instantly available for viewing on either …
Jun
24
2011
Bad Dreams of my Fatherhood
Jack and Lara and I were in a parking lot. He wanted to drive. I opened the door for him, let him crawl behind the wheel, fired up the car, then closed the driver’s side door. “Be careful,” I said. …
Jun
16
2011
How Blogging About Your Kids Will Screw Them Up
A kerfuffle has kerfuffled among my fellow male bloggers because ‘they’ are trying to determine the greatest Dad bloggers in the universe. (Curious about ‘them’? Ron Mattocks over at Clark Kent’s Lunchbox took a pretty good look and came up …
May
18
2011
The One Where We Find Out the Gender
Second pregnancies are different than first pregnancies, in that couples are less likely to Google misinformation every time something ‘feels weird.’ There are other differences. Our pregnancy expertise — pregnantise? — has led us to conversations and decisions that we …
May
13
2011
Some Thoughts on Death and Patience
On Mother’s Day, we piled into the car and spent the morning taking a ride. The land about ten or fifteen minutes outside of our suburb is all rolling hills and horse country, a part of the area that I’d …