My family and I took a last-minute vacation to Disney World last week. We had been planning to go later in the year, but got a good end-of-summer deal and decided to go for it. I make it a habit not to blog about vacations while actually on them—to me, it’s like putting up a
With Eric Stonestreet winning an Emmy Sunday for his portrayal of a gay dad in ABC’s Modern Family, and the summer movie about two lesbian moms, The Kids Are All Right, garnering early Oscar buzz, it is easy to forget what things were like just 25 years ago. Then, people both inside and outside the
Back-to-school time is upon us once again. We LGBT parents with kids in school are busy buying pencils and notebooks, rulers and knapsacks. We’re not that different from any others.
After winning an Emmy Sunday night for playing a gay dad on ABC’s Modern Family, Eric Stonestreet talked at a press conference about the impact of the show: “We get amazing compliments from kids of same-sex marriage families. For example, the most recent one just was the other day. A gentleman approached me and said
Helen and I discuss what a lesbian mid-life crisis looks like, whether station wagons are frumpy, and meeting other families—gay and straight—while on vacation. Mombian: She Got Me Pregnant, 08-26-10 Uploaded by drudolph. – More gay and lesbian lifestyle videos. (If the embedded video above doesn’t work for you, try it at Dailymotion.) Brought to
A new study has found that children of same-sex parents are making progress through primary school at the same rate as children of opposite-sex couples. This will come as no surprise to most readers here; you’ve likely already read about this study and this one, which found that children of same-sex couples are just as
Eighty percent of American students in grades 6 through 12 aren’t getting enough sleep during the school year, according to research by the National Sleep Foundation, reports the LA Times. The paper also discusses the increasing number of schools starting classes later, especially for teens. It’s about time, I say. I have never understood why
Today’s young people tend to look at homosexuality—the people who are paying attention, that is—with a big fat ‘whatever,’ which any parent can tell you is three steps beyond ‘tolerance.’ Tolerance implies a power structure. ‘Whatever’ does not. —Susan Campbell, Hartford Courant, June 15, 2010. My mom saves newspaper clippings for me. When I was
Not this again. An Anglican elementary school in Bedford, Texas has denied admission to a girl because her parents are lesbians and married in Canada, reports NBCDFW. The head of St. Vincent’s School, Kenneth Monk, said that by allowing the the school would be “going off our canons” that say marriage is limited to one man
Helen and I share our adventures and misadventures in Portland, Oregon, which led us to our latest technology purchase. This brings us to the subject of technology and tykes. How are today’s technologies affecting our kids’ behaviors and expectations? Is it worth teaching them “old fashioned” ways of doing things, or are we just jealous
