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Preparing Teens for Onward & Upward Just in time for graduation giving comes the newly updated What Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future by Richard N. Bolles and Carol Christen. Together they show readers how to put together a blueprint for finding jobs that match their interests and make high school and college work for them to achieve their goals (including the importance of internships and the value some young people find in gap years). By Karen Kullgren Handy Dads Yes, we know that moms can be handy. But Father’s Day is in June, so we’re talking about dads now. Handy Dad: 25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids by Todd Davis has projects for papas who may or may not be pros at the whole tools and projects thing. There are easier projects, like bird feeders and rope swings, right up to more ambi- tious weekend projects like go-carts, dollhouses, treehouses and rope bridges. So hit the hardware store and get cracking! A Fine Read for Fathers Soon before Ben George’s wife gave birth, he bought her Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions (truly one of the greatest mommy must-haves of all time, by the way). Reading it, he says, “My wife, and I through her, was getting that feeling we all cherish when reading someone else’s unafraid, honest observations.” Now he’s created such a book for men, The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood, begin- ning with his own beautiful introduction and joined by 20 other men sharing adventures in parenting. Dads in the Digital Age In The Modern Dad’s Dilemma: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids in a Rapidly Changing World, John Badalament, Ed.M., helps fathers achieve their visions of engaged parenting. Using real-life examples and exercises, he advises them to build on the three essential qualities: self-knowledge (understanding their own pasts), courage (to explore different ways of fathering) and adaptability (to the rapidly changing roles of men in family life). Badalament is the director of the PBS documentary “All Men Are Sons: Exploring the Legacy of Fatherhood.” good stuff Very Special Arts Those who assume a photographer has to be able to see, a dancer has to be able to walk or a percussionist has to be able to hear are about to have their preconceptions challenged. VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, is hosting the 2010 International VSA Festival June 6-12, with more than 600 artists, performers and educators from all over the world. Among the highlights for families are the All Kids Can … CREATE! Exhibition, Start with the Arts Family Day, AfroBeats: Mali to Motor City and All Aboard! Songs and Stories from America’s Railroads. Vsarts.org Poetic Papas For a completely unique Father’s Day experience, head to the Writer’s Center, where their Open Door Reading Series will feature a Father’s Day Poetry and Prose Open Mic. Sign-up for readers starts at 1:30 p.m. Tell Dad he’d better get started now on coming up something that will wow the audience (and more importantly, his proud kids watching). Rhyming not required! 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda. 301-654-8664, Writer.org 8 Washington Parent June 2010
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Preparing Teens for Onward & UpwardJust in time for graduation giving comes the newly updated What
Color Is Your Parachute? For Teens: Discovering Yourself, Defining Your Future by Richard N. Bolles and Carol Christen. Together they show readers how to put together a blueprint for finding jobs that match their interests and make high school and college work for them to achieve their goals (including the importance of internships and the value some young people find in gap years).
By Karen Kullgren
Handy DadsYes, we know that moms can be handy. But Father’s Day is in June,
so we’re talking about dads now. Handy Dad: 25 Awesome Projects for Dads and Kids by Todd Davis has projects for papas who may or may not be pros at the whole tools and projects thing. There are easier projects, like bird feeders and rope swings, right up to more ambi-tious weekend projects like go-carts, dollhouses, treehouses and rope bridges. So hit the hardware store and get cracking!
A Fine Read for FathersSoon before Ben George’s wife gave birth,
he bought her Anne Lamott’s Operating Instructions (truly one of the greatest mommy must-haves of all time, by the way). Reading it, he says, “My wife, and I through her, was getting that feeling we all cherish when reading someone else’s unafraid, honest observations.” Now he’s created such a book for men, The Book of Dads: Essays on the Joys, Perils, and Humiliations of Fatherhood, begin-ning with his own beautiful introduction and joined by 20 other men sharing adventures in parenting.
Dads in the Digital AgeIn The Modern Dad’s Dilemma: How to Stay Connected with Your Kids in
a Rapidly Changing World, John Badalament, Ed.M., helps fathers achieve their visions of engaged parenting. Using real-life examples and exercises, he advises them to build on the three essential qualities: self-knowledge (understanding their own pasts), courage (to explore different ways of fathering) and adaptability (to the rapidly changing roles of men in family life). Badalament is the director of the PBS documentary “All Men Are Sons: Exploring the Legacy of Fatherhood.”
goodstuff
Very Special ArtsThose who assume a photographer has to be
able to see, a dancer has to be able to walk or a percussionist has to be able to hear are about to have their preconceptions challenged. VSA, the international organization on arts and disability, is hosting the 2010 International VSA Festival June 6-12, with more than 600 artists, performers and educators from all over the world. Among the highlights for families are the All Kids Can …CREATE! Exhibition, Start with the Arts Family Day, AfroBeats: Mali to Motor City and All Aboard! Songs and Stories from America’s Railroads. Vsarts.org
Poetic PapasFor a completely unique Father’s
Day experience, head to the Writer’s Center, where their Open Door Reading Series will feature a Father’s Day Poetry and Prose Open Mic.
Sign-up for readers starts at 1:30 p.m. Tell Dad he’d better get started now on coming up something that will wow the audience (and more importantly, his proud kids watching). Rhyming not required! 4508 Walsh Street, Bethesda. 301-654-8664, Writer.org
8 Washington Parent June 2010
