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Father’s Day is coming up in a few weeks (and by a few, I mean LESS THAN A WEEK OMG), so we’ve seen a lot of articles around the web praising fathers for all their hard work. Which they deserve. But here’s one from Susan at MomLogic has a few things she’d like to address with dads:

10 Reasons Father Doesn’t Know Best

1. He dresses the kids in flip-flops and shorts on a 45-degree day. (When the thermometer hits 100, he sends them out in fleece.)
2. He thinks “quality time” with his kid means watching “Jackass: The Movie” with his 6-year-old son.
3. On the night of his daughter’s first date, he demands that she wear a turtleneck and a chastity belt.

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This year, there were two Olympic medalists who were raised by single dads. But does highlighting the fact that they had only a father imply that single dads are likely to fare worse as parents than single mothers? Mom Lylah Alphonse at Child Caring takes offense to this notion:

It bugged me as I read yet another story about short track skating champ [Apolo] Ohno that asked “Where’s his mom?” And it finally hit me last night, as I watched a promo for freestyle ski phenom [Emily] Cook. “Raised by Dad,” marveled the voiceover.

As if they turned out OK in spite of the their fathers’ care, rather than because of it.

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One of my first jobs was as a line cook for an upscale deli and catering business. From the ripe age of 15, I held that job throughout high school and for a couple of years afterwards while I attended the local junior college. I learned a lot about cooking throughout that time, and I also developed a love of being in the kitchen and making food that is both tasty and visually appealing.
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No man can serve two masters, or so the biblical adage goes, but can a dad truly devote himself to technology and to his family? Blogger Michael Sheehan says yes—not that it’s always easy.

The father of three daughters and an avowed gadget junkie, Michael admits he sometimes feels “two things tugging me in different directions: family and technology.” But, he says, “instead of trying to battle these two potentially opposing forces, I made the effort to combine the two.”
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