Dethroner Asks You: A Bunch of Random Questions About Fatherhood

I could break each of these out into their own posts, but that seemed like a cheap exercise in post count padding. These are my questions to you, fathers.

• Do you sleep nude with your kids? If so, when did you stop doing it? Did you ever stop doing it? Is being nude around your kids weird or healthy?

• What do you do if your kid is just totally a wasteoid? I’m thinking specifically here of the teenage kid who killed a bum and then tried to blame it on videogames; his step-mom wrote a letter to Penny Arcade explaining how he’d basically been given every chance and was—with seemingly no explanation—just an evil kid.

• How early do you start explaining the birds and bees? Do you let them come to you or drop clues as they grow? Do you give your kids birth control, including condoms?

I know this is totally a huge smoosh of questions; don’t feel like you have to answer every one to respond. And I also know there are countless guides, web sites, and professionals who exist only to address these things, but I don’t care. I want to know what you guys think.