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Allan Shedlin

How Can Parents Prepare Kids for Ever-Larger End-of-Summer Butterflies?

As the new school year begins in a chaotic world, how can parents calm kids' seemingly larger, more plentiful end-of-summer butterflies?

Allan Shedlin

One Useful Weapon All Parents Should Have On Hand

Daddying editor Scott Beller wants more parents to know about the dangers of fentanyl and that Narcan is the best defense against overdose.

Allan Shedlin

Our Kids' Halloween Frights Should Not Last A Lifetime

DCG founder Allan Shedlin envisions a post-Uvalde world where Halloween frights only come once a year for kids, teachers, and parents.

Allan Shedlin

When Will We Finally Retire the Most Meaningless of All Two-Word Phrases?

In the wake of another gun violence tragedy, DCG founder Allan Shedlin confronts the most meaningless two-word combination in any language.

Allan Shedlin

Tackling the Rampaging Elephant in the (Class)room

Scott Beller has had enough gun violence. He takes on the GOP elephant in the room (& everywhere else) after Uvalde TX school mass shooting.

Allan Shedlin

How To Wrangle Those End-of-Summer Butterflies In COVIDious Times

DCG's Allan Shedlin helps parents talk to kids about why it's normal to feel anxious at start of a school year, especially during a pandemic

Allan Shedlin

Our COVIDious Crescendo

My basically-optimistic nature continues to prevail and believe that we are fitfully inching toward a decrescendo, a COVID convalescence...

Allan Shedlin

Nurturing the New End-of-Summer Butterflies

When the cocoon of childhood summers past opened into a more predictable fall, the emergent butterfly was able to unfurl its new wings & fly

Driving Instructions For Me and My Daughter's Sweet 16

The Queen of Goodbye

Embrace the Wobble