Baby Steps: Help the Planet (and have some fun)
Plant a tree with your kiddos to help the planet (and have some fun).
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To Infinity and Beyond
Scaling a massive sand dune on the Oregon Coast turns into a life lesson for our columnist and his kids.
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Baby Steps: Food, Shelter, Comfort
Homelessness is on the rise in Portland. Here’s how your family can help.
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Baby Steps: Feeding Hope
Even if your kids are too young to volunteer at a soup kitchen, they can make a difference in battling hunger.
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Baby Steps: Off to a Good Start
On raising helpful kids, in a complicated world.
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Daddy Issues August 2017
After three years, our columnist — and his kiddo — sign off.
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Push-Mi, Pull-yu
One child who wants nothing to do with you + one child who refuses anyone else = exhaustion.
Daddy Issues: Here Kitty, Kitty
Meet a 6-year-old who will do anything for a pet kitten (even clean her room).
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Daddy Issues: Now She is Six
A 6-year-old declares independence
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To Sleep, Perchance to Dream
It’s rare, it’s fleeting. How to make the most of a precious double car nap.
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Daddy Issues: Dancing in the Dark
Passing the torch to the next generation, at a first concert.
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Baby Steps: Life in the Slow Lane
Sometimes it’s okay to ditch the schedule and simply soak in the moments with your children.
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Daddy Issues: Above the Fray
Explaining this year’s topsy-turvy presidential election to a 5-year-old is no easy task.
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Baby Steps: Homecoming
Away from her kids for work, our columnist finds that everyone will survive — and that there’s no place like home.
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Baby Steps: Up In The Air
Conquering the final frontier — solo airplane travel, with two kids under 3.
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Daddy Issues: Rink of Dreams
A daughter joins her first ice hockey team, and a father looks back.
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Baby Steps: Wishful Thinking
What to buy two kids who have everything? Nothing, says our columnist.
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Baby Steps: Take Two
A first column from a new perspective – mama to two.
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Daddy Issues: The Shortest Season
Fighting the good fight against the hyper-scheduled summer.
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Baby Steps: A Trip Through the Aisles
Navigating IKEA, toddler in tow. Lycka till!* (That’s Swedish for “Good Luck!”)
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