Welcome to my regular Friday feature, Worst of the Week. As a white, suburbanite husband and dad of two kids, there’s a lot that can go wrong and this entry is all about how to fix it. I hope you enjoy it!

Here in Detroit in December between the Big 3 having to go beg for money and our beloved Lions going 0-16, the Detroit Free Press announced a restructuring program in order to save money and essentially to stay alive.

Ever since I can remember I have always had a paper at the doorstep in the morning. I’m one of those people who read, or at least look at it, every day; especially the Sports page. Starting as a kid, I was fascinated looking at the team statistics, standings, box scores and the transactions no matter what the league. I’ve passed that along to Patrick (8) and now everyday before he heads off to school he takes a look and gives me updates from the previous days games while I’m getting my morning coffee or making sure the kids lunch and backpacks are set. I even got him interested in reading the small columns that provide updates on the happenings of the four local teams: Red Wings, Pistons, Lions and Tigers.

Now come March this routine will change drastically. The Free Press will continue to be printed seven days a week, however home delivery of the paper will be cut back to only three days a week – Thursday, Friday and Sunday. Not only will this affect Patrick and me, but it will also affect my wife Patty, who likes to go through the Sunday inserts and circulars that come with the Saturday paper. Those inserts will come with the Sunday paper.

I’m not here today to preach to you how great newspapers are or that they’re dying and some have suggested. Newspapers are changing and we have to change with them. Sure it’s easy to go online and get the news. I do it everyday with RSS and my mobile phone. But there is a benefit of newspapers as a delivery mechanism for content. It’s a fantastic portable device. It’s compact and full or information from Paris, France to Paris Hilton. But in regards to Patrick, it’s also teaching him how to search with his eyes and not some search engine on ESPN.com.