What makes a great park? As new father, I'd say it's a place with enough activities to keep your kid busy that also has something to entertain the adults. Lawrence's Deerfield Park is that and more. With a daughter who's almost a year old, and a need for her mother and me to get more ...

You hear a lot of advice as a new parent. To keep your sanity, you willfully forget most of it. It's the recommendations you hear over and over again that tend to make it through the clutter. And if there's one that's been pounded into my head in my first nine months of parenthood, it's ...

Since this week's WellCommons has a "mature living" theme, I thought I would focus this week's column on two of the more mature people I know: my parents. To be honest, I can't remember the last time they were this thrilled with me. And I know it has everything with do with my beautiful, ...

Babies grow fast. That point seems pretty apparent, but when you're around your daughter every day, like I am, it can sometimes be difficult to notice. "Is she getting bigger?" her mother asked on a recent day. She's around our daughter more than I am, so I forgave her for posing such an ...

In honor of having recently celebrated my first Father's Day as, well, a father, I'm launching my new parenting blog. Because, of course, I'm already an expert in the field. The blog is called Daddy Rules, as I will try to provide rules for fellow dads to live by. Also, because as a dad to an ...