Archive for the ‘Thinking Back’ Category
New Perspectives on Fatherhood
The Girl is approaching the ripe old age of one, and I’m finding that my perspectives on this whole skeptical parenting thing are become less abstract by the day. Call it what you will — early confusion, naive over-extension — but my views on what it means to be a father, particularly a father attempting to raise a critically thinking kid, have evolved and refined since a little more than a year ago (on the very verge of fatherhood) when I set out to build this blog.
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Home for the Holidays
With only a few days until Christmas my mind is aflutter with the nuances of balancing three things: (1) Appeasing an extended family who looks to their own deeply spiritual essence for the holidays, (2) keeping my daughter’s first “Visit from Santa” special, but still low-key and (3) my own skeptical need for some secular seasonal substitutes. For those veering away from superstition, the holidays can be a troubling time; For skeptics with family and kids, it is a heart-wrenching time of year altogether.
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In Defense of Ghost Stories
The other night we were privileged to enjoy a couple hours of peace and quiet while the girl slept. My wife and I, reverting to our pre-parental state of freedom opted to spend the time watching a movie on television. Blame the impending Halloween media blitz, but the best we could find on the tube at that particular hour was the classic from our youths, the 1984 paranormal classic Ghost Busters (Internet Movie Database Entry) directed by Ivan Reitman.
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The skep/dad blog is a place for rational, science-minded fathers to express their thoughts, opinions, and ideas about bringing up kids to be critical thinking adults in a world filled with superstition, mysticism, and pseudoscience.
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Brad adds: As of October 2007, I'm soliciting interest for skeptics in the Edmonton, Alberta, Canada area who are interested in forming a skeptical society to contact me. Please do so through this blog or via Facebook (through the Edmonton Skeptical Society Group).
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