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Parenting Strategies

Death by 1,000 (Poopy) Butts: How to Break Out of Your Boring Parenting Routine

By Steve Calechman

What to Do if You're Feeling Lonely

By Lizzy Francis

How to Not Burn Out

Therapy Made Me Become a Better Dad

By Lizzy Francis

Father & Child Relationships

This Is What It's Like to Be a Dad With OCD

Coming to Terms With My Depression Made Me a Better Dad

By Doyin Richards

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American Parents Are on Suicide Watch Even though record numbers of children are making attempts on their own lives, schools are divesting from mental healthcare. Who is going to step up?

Who Reassures Dad? Social progress has been largely good for American families, but the destruction of support systems for men has left fathers increasingly stranded and alone.

How to Raise a Self-Aware Kid But Not a Neurotic Kids need to know who they are, and feel good about it, too.

How to Help Someone With Depression While Being Fair to Yourself Don't become your spouse's therapist. Don't abandon them, either.

How to Support a Child With Chronic Illness Child life specialists help families cope in a healthcare environment, and parents can look to them to learn how to help sick kids.

How to Vote for School Safety It turns out that increasing education funding might make schools safer.

How My Anxiety Makes Being a Good Dad and Husband Hard "I’d just come into the house after walking off an anxiety attack, stuck in a mental state somewhere between 'my heart is going to explode' and "should I walk straight into traffic?'"

What Happens When You Stop Checking Your Email in the Morning "Instead of me telling my day where it goes, my day was telling me where I was going to go. I wanted to change that."

The 15-Second Morning Ritual That Makes Me a More Present Dad It's helped me keep a cool head through life's rough patches.

This Simple Routine That Makes Me a Calm, Focused Dad It's all about solving the problem by not thinking about the problem.

Want to Be a Better Dad? Act Silly With Your Friends Getting on stage with my buddies just melts the stress of fatherhood away.

Getting Beat Up Helps Me Be a Better Dad On the mat, it's all about negotiating your way out of tough situations.

Coping with Male Infertility It's easy for men with reproductive issues to see it as a blow to their ego. It happens and the healthiest way to cope is to stop thinking of it as a blow to manhood.

Stubbornness and Depression Team Up on American Men Handling depression is tough. Handling depression alone or without compromise is considerably harder.

My Depression and My Kids My kids didn't know about my first suicide attempt. They were too young.

I'm a Grown Man and I Just Want to Go Outside to Play Letting men get outside to play would increase health outcomes and probably make the world a much better place all around.

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