FF It was a long time coming when I decided last week to unplug my family from our various forms of electronic entertainment – TV, Internet, video games (XBOX, Wii, 3DS). It was an experiment born from frustration, and you’ll be interested to know that it was mostly successful. I say mostly because of [...]
FF I‘ve gotten sufficiently annoyed recently by one of my sons (and I’m not going to say which one) and his dependence on electronic entertainment that I’ve decided to run a family experiment. This morning I unplugged the television, took away the Nintendo DS’s, and banned them from the Internet. To be completely fair to [...]
PP I have a theory about resolutions. But first, to be clear, I don’t like resolutions even though I repeatedly make them. Resolutions are preemptive failure admissions. The declaration of a resolution is, many more times than not, really just an announcement concerning the thing you’re about to fail. And guess what I do every [...]
I don’t understand why parents lie to their kids about Santa Claus. I can’t do it. I know what some of you are thinking; this must be some religious stand I’m taking, right? No, surprisingly, it isn’t. This is just a parenting style. I made the decision when the boys were born that I would [...]
Everyone is talking about Christmas now that Thanksgiving is behind us, but I’m still thinking about Thanksgiving. “Why?” You ask? Because I got to eat a 90 dollar turkey this past Thanksgiving! That’s why. Yes, I ate a 15lb turkey (or at least a portion of it) that cost someone at our dinner table, and [...]
A friend of mine wrote what has become Almightydad’s most commented on article. The article has 1,054 comments as of yesterday and has shown no ebb. Almost every day I get one or two, and it’s been more than a year since publication. The subject of the article is an MLM company called Send Out [...]
I was skeptical of smart phone technology before I got one for myself. I’m not a Luddite (who is these days?), but I have been a slow adopter of new technology on the grounds that much of it is pointless. Humans, though, are evolved to be innovators, and thus, I can’t be totally anti-technology. When it [...]
HH They’re kidding, right? Right!? No. Sadly, I don’t think they are. I have to admit, though, I really like their website, and they seem to have competent social media marketing. But, back to the point! Here’s the idea: These folks have put together a campaign that promotes turning Halloween into JesusWeen. They want Christians [...]
Remember school assemblies when you were a kid? If not, I forgive you. At least you probably remember the salient point, that getting out of class was pretty great in and of itself no matter what the assembly tried to teach us. There we would sit in the auditorium listening to a boring guy (who [...]
I can’t tell you how annoying it is to buy Halloween candy every year just to have half of it gobbled up by carousing teenagers wearing shoddy costumes. Oh, wait – I think I can describe how annoying that is. It’s fracking ridiculous, and I want to punch them all in the face and tell [...]
Disasters change the way affected societies think about the world. For instance, 9/11 changed our politics here in the US, and it will probably never look the same as it did before 9/11. That’s a societal change. We all now, as a group, behave, for better or worse, differently. We’re no longer oblivious to the [...]
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