Dad, what’s a master debater?
By Jon Lowder Right before the last day of school for my kids before the Christmas holidays, my daughter, Erin invited two friends to sleep over. As I was working on my computer, and the girls were on...
View ArticleThe Turd Man of Alcatraz
By Jon Lowder The “Alcatraz” of this post’s title is my beautiful home in which my wife and I are imprisoned with our children. The “Turd Man” is yours truly. Why, you may ask, am I the “Turd Man?”...
View ArticleMother’s Day, Lowder Style
By Jon Lowder Mother’s Day, 2007: which until that Saturday before, I was pretty sure was an event invented by the folks at Hallmark. Then I read that the genesis of Mother’s Day was as a kind of...
View ArticleDad is from Mars, Mom is from Venus
By Jon Lowder This morning was an anxious one for our family, but I won’t get into the details since it involves one of the kids and I’m not into airing the kids’ personal stuff (unless of course they...
View ArticleHow to Train a Man in 13 Steps
By Jon Lowder It’s interesting to be the father of a young woman who is in college and dating. What’s interesting is not the act of dating – I really don’t want to think about the whole thing – but the...
View ArticleWhy Teens Don’t Care About Their Drivers License
By Jon Lowder My kids, all three of them, have had an extraordinarily luke-warm attitude towards getting their driver’s licenses and based on conversations I’ve had with some of their friends’ parents...
View ArticleWhen Parents Are Full of $h*t
By Jon Lowder Yes.. Sometimes Parents ARE Full of $h*t The two oldest of our three kids will be heading to NC State in a few weeks, our oldest for his sophomore year (transferring from UNC Charlotte)...
View ArticleYou Haven’t Lived Until You’ve Traveled With Teenagers
By Jon Lowder It’s hard to complain about anything when you’ve been able to take a few days off and escape with the family to a semi-abandoned timeshare in the land of over-landscaped golf courses....
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