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The Year of the Dad

By Shawn Bean On May 23, 2012 Comments ()

How I went from the only dude on staff, the guy who reviewed breast pumps and baby food, to guest editor of Parenting's first-ever Dads issue, now on newsstands.

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An Open Letter to the Breastfeeding Boy on the Cover of Time

By Shawn Bean On May 16, 2012 Comments ()

At first, I thought you were a really exotic piercing. Then I realized you were a boy. However, I'm not interested in the breastfeeding debate the Time cover has caused. But I am worried about you having this kind of fame.

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It's Normal For Kids To Sing About Being Sexy

By Shawn Bean On May 9, 2012 Comments ()

A first grader in Colorado earned a three-day suspension for singing LMFAO’s “Sexy and I Know It” to a female classmate. Considering the world he's living in, that's exactly what we should expect from him.

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Why My Son Quit The Boy Scouts

By Shawn Bean On May 4, 2012 Comments ()

Last month, on almost the exact same day, Jackson, my 8-year-old son, and Jennifer Tyrrell, den mother with the Ohio Pack 109, left the Boy Scouts. But the reasons they left are very, very different.

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Six Months Down, And Life To Go

By Shawn Bean On April 30, 2012 Comments ()

On Good Friday, a father in Texas was told his six-month-old daughter was terminally ill and wouldn’t live past age 2. Three days later, he created a bucket list for her. UPDATE: Yesterday at 3pm, about the same time this story was posted, Avery Canahuati passed away due to pulmonary complications related to SMA.

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The Coolest Single Dad on Earth Lives in Africa. And Isn't Human.

By Shawn Bean On April 26, 2012 Comments ()

Adoption, single moms, single dads, working parents, foster parents, multigenerational homes, and vegan families: Every modern family storyline imaginable can be found -- wait for it -- in a new Disney documentary about chimpanzees.

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Mom Is Not The Most Difficult Job In The World

By Shawn Bean On April 21, 2012 Comments ()

The political chatter surrounding stay-at-home mom Ann Romney proves that we can't handle the truth: Motherhood is a mother of a job, but it's far from the toughest.

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Should I Have Taken my Wife's Name?

By Shawn Bean On April 13, 2012 Comments ()

Yes, some guys are doing it. and this might be a momentous milestone for modern fatherhood.

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Why I became a gay dad

By Shawn Bean On April 10, 2012 Comments ()

I’m in love with my wife. She’s beautiful and smells like a wildflower meadow. I read Playboy for the articles, and for the naked pictures of female pro wrestlers and 80s pop stars. But earlier today this straight dude chose to be a gay father, and I’m better for it.

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Why My Sons Aren't Going to College

By Shawn Bean On April 3, 2012 Comments ()

Okay, that's probably a slight overstatement, but one thing I'm sure of is this: Right now, in America, higher education is a rip-off on par with gas prices and airline baggage fees.

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Watch: Lords of the Playground

Two funny dads talk parenting at the playground in this hilarious video series