“Newly single parent faces trial by fire”
By Jim DeBrosse |I think I first fully realized the terrible onus that is single parenthood on the day I set fire to the stir-fry…
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“Family of screamers no less loving”
By Jim DeBrosse |Psssst. Reader, come a little closer. Right there. Good. Now I have a secret to share with you about my family…
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“Save money the Mr. Mom way”
By Jim DeBrosse |When the economy gets tough, the tough get cheap…
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“Ingenious plan eliminates folding laundry”
By Jim DeBrosse |Not long after my divorce nine years ago, I vowed as a single parent I would never fold laundry on top of my many other duties…
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“Dad succumbs in texting standoff”
By Jim DeBrosse |Here’s the latest missive from the front lines of the DeBrosse family Texting Wars: I caved…
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“Dealing with backtalk the Mr. Mom way”
By Jim DeBrosse |When other adults tell me what a well-mannered and respectful young man my son is, I thank them for the compliment…
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“Unruly kids grow out of it – eventually”
By Jim DeBrosse |Pssssst. Come closer, because I’m afraid I’ll jinx this if I say it out loud… I think my 14-year-old son is growing up.
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“Cell phones: Life at the speed of sound”
By Jim DeBrosse |Cell phones — nuisance or necessity? You decide…
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“Christmas need only be ‘good enough'”
By Jim DeBrosse |Really, it wasn’t a bad looking Christmas tree; maybe a tad on the stout side, with a bare spot that would have to be turned to the back…
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“Mouth to mouth: Communication key in kissing”
By Jim DeBrosse |A divorced friend of mine recently mentioned that she had stopped dating someone specifically because he did not know how to kiss…
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“It’s 11 pm: Do you know where your remote is?”
By Jim DeBrosse |Humor columnists have tried for decades to explain why some household items multiply and others disappear…
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“Girls bring game, boys are just jealous”
By Jim DeBrosse |As a defensive midfielder, my 11-year-old daughter will lope around the soccer field, her shoulders stooped slightly in the way of her Grandma Schamel, until her eyes lock on an approaching ball…
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“No cable? That’s a reality show kids won’t like”
By Jim DeBrosse |Two weeks ago, I had the DVR and premium cable service removed from my house…
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“It’s okay to rely on your kids, just not too much”
By Jim DeBrosse |After an hour of trying to replace a headlight last week on my 2006 Honda CR-V, I finally gave up and let my 15-year-old daughter do it…
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“One word worth a thousand pictures”
By Jim DeBrosse |This is another in an occasional series of columns I call “True Adventures in Modern Shopping”…
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“Mixed breed brings pure love”
By Jim DeBrosse |Don’t let anyone ever convince you that a single-parent household can’t handle a dog…
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“Child support system imperfect but essential”
By Jim DeBrosse |To be sure, the child support enforcement system is not perfect. But I dread to think what kind of world our children would live in without it…
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“Single parenting not the ideal”
By Jim DeBrosse |Unmarried heads of households now officially outnumber married couples, according to the latest barrage of survey data from the U.S. Census Bureau…
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“Dog scraps can teach lessons for life”
By Jim DeBrosse |Don’t waste your money on a 50-page best-seller about kindergarten. Everything I happen to know I learned from my mutt, Bandit…
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“Art school never happened but…”
By Jim DeBrosse |I hadn’t touched a brush or oil paints in decades, not since my college days, but in recent weeks, I finished a simple street scene…
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