Daddy Boot Camp THIS SATURDAY 9-1pm! February 9th

Foothills Hospital, Boulder, CO. This class just this date is on the THIRD FLOOR OB ED room.

9am. Thanks!, Barney


Remaining 2008 Boulder Daddy Boot Camp Dates are:

Mar 8
Apr 12
May 10
Jun 14
July12
Aug 9
Sep 13
Oct 11
Nov 8
Dec 13

Note we skip July, so just don't have a baby then!


If the first class you request is full, please check on our Monthly (Except July) 2008 Class openings and register (Required), contact:

Coreen Schmidt

Executive Director

St. Vrain Family Center
P.O. Box 2174
Longmont, CO 80502-2174
Phone: (303) 776-5348

www.stvrainfamilycenter.org

If you are a Veteran Dad with a baby under 1 year old, PLEASE COME ANYTIME DURING THE CLASS For Free Coffee, Pastries, and a NICE CIGAR. If you know a dad with a child under 1 year old and bring him with his child to the class, your class fee will be REFUNDED.

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My Breath Stinks

I'm in a strange place with my 9 year old and math homework.

I get all excited about it, she just wants to get it done. I run around grabbing 'scrap' paper and showing her how fun to figure out the close multiples of 5 or 10 to work backwards towards the real answer, which is a multiple of 8, and she just says, "Your breath stinks."

This is one of the blessings of having children, this pronouncement. I know my breath stinks of course. I walk around and have long stretches of stinky breath. I mean I brush after meals, but this old cracker is not going to suck sugar all day to have fresh on the spot breath. Hey, I prep when needed, thats enough. For homework with the kids, I skip the Altoid.

Still its refreshing to be told. Its not like I can tell my boss, while they are asking me how a project is going, "Yes, they are very interested Bob, but your breath stinks." And they don't tell me. Adults just leisurely back head first away and try to keep their eyeballs from rolling. Kids shoot from the hip mouth .

2 Blue

I got to play the Game of Life last night with my 7 year old. As we started out, and I got to the STOP: GET MARRIED space, I went for the pink peg to add to my car, and STOPPED.

Why not use this little space in this Game of Life to bridge a discussion on homosexual lifestyle? "Can I be two men?" I asked her. "Sure" she replied, "My friend at school has two moms. One is 'Mom'. and one is 'Momma.'

It seems I was bridging to myself, my seven year old had been down this life course. "What will you pick?" I asked her. "Hmmm", she said, initially going for another pink for her car, but then considering. "I will close my eyes and pick", she said, and got a blue peg to join her pink one, totally at random. "I like that", she said, "You know I have Nedda." Nedda is a boy from the Netherlands she is friends with.

That was it for this topic that game. We had lots of other Life issues to deal with, car accidents, insurance, buying a home. 'How', I wondered as our two cars inched farther down the game of life, 'Do other parents, if they do, bridge the issue of sexuality to their kids?' Some I fear may with disdain for same sex couples, and how sad for the next generation if they are exposed to old hatred and fears. Not discussing does not seem a healthy alternative either, its here, as it ever has been, as long as we have been human. Unless your pegged in Iran, where they have no Homosexuals.