Three Rules For Fighting with Your Spouse This Holiday Season

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Zach Rosenberg hopes you married couples are fighting out there. After all, it’s a good sign.

A Boy and His Penis

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JD Roberto wishes he could avoid sending his five-year-old son mixed messages about his sexuality.

Reinvent and Relearn: A Response to NY Times Op-Ed Columnist Thomas Friedman

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Learning to reinvent and relearn is often scary. But doing it together — as men and as humans — might be the only thing we can do.

“What if you asked Tiger Woods if it was all worth it even after being caught?”

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This is a comment by wellokaythen on the post “CNN asks, ‘Are Men Stupid?’… Actually, No.”

The Whiskey Rule

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A lovely rule to make sure you make every meeting. I’m generally scatter-brained and disorganized, and, on rare occasions, I miss meetings. I also work with creative types, who are often scatter-brained and disorganized and, on rare occasions, miss meetings with me. Ned Dwyer of Native Digital, who probably deals with the same issues, came [...]

“Discipline should never be given out in uncontrolled anger.”

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This is a comment by Eric M on the post “Why Time Outs Don’t Work”.

What Freedom and China Have to Do With ObamaCare

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“I saw that in the literal sense, China was freer than America.” Discipline, cigarette smoking, the quarter-life crisis, and the Affordable Care Act all figure into Brandon Ferdig’s essay on freedoms and their limits.

25 Failsafe* Rules For Dads Raising Daughters

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Marcus Williams and Joanna Schroeder offer 25 rules to help build close bonds between daddies and their little girls.

“The Corporate Congress crybabies are mad because he is taking his money and leaving.”

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This is a comment by jdh on the post “Did Eduardo Saverin Really “De-Friend” the American People?”

Kids Are Like Velociraptors

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Art Eddy reflects on the dangerously devilish cleverness of children.

Teenage Kicks: 5/12

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Quiet Riot Girl calls for submissions from—and on the subject of—teenage boys and young men.

War Is More Logical Than Football

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If we can figure out a set of rules for violence in war, why can’t we do it for the NFL?

An Update to the GMP Commenting Policy

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We’ve updated our rules.

How to Make Sports Fair: Get Rid of the Rules

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When it comes to what’s fair in sports, there are the rules, and then there are the Rules.

Don’t Be THAT Parent

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We all know the one. The one who had snack time taken out of your kid’s class because her kid always felt like he didn’t have the best snack.

Virginia School Forbids Exploration, Discussion, Non-Curriculum Learning

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Westfield High, a school in Fairfax County, Virginia, recently enacted a shocking set of rules for students in AP history classes.