We all have our own house rules. My rules are pretty basic. No jumping on furniture, no yelling, put food away after eating, and always flush the toilet. I don’t have a list written down. My rules are what I consider to be common courtesy sorts of rules, not weird or memorization worthy. I think [...]
“Like all parents, my husband and I just do the best we can, and hold our breath, and hope we’ve set aside enough money to pay for our kids’ therapy.” ~ Michelle Pfeiffer Miss Pfeiffer speaks truth. There is no perfect parent. All we can do is try our best and learn from our mistakes. [...]
I‘ve written previously about breast feeding in public. Thus, I won’t rehash the entire spiel. Needless to say I’m an advocate of breast feeding, in public or wherever. I can eat pretty much anywhere I want so I think a baby ought to be able to do at least as much. That’s not the point [...]
Yes, yes, it’s also important to play fair and be a good sport; not enough can be said about winning in the right way – the gracious and honorable way. However, in the end and despite the popular liberal view that merely participating is worthy of equal praise, winning really does matter. And, it matters [...]
Whenever my boys spend a few hours wantonly playing and running around like idiots, it’s hard to get them to sit still. It’s even harder to ask them a serious question and get a serious answer. Their brains and bodies are so wired up that the only remedy is a few minutes of quiet. [...]
Listening to negativity is hard, and the only difference between kid negativity and adult negativity is that you can walk away from other adults, leaving them to work out their own problems. You can’t walk away from your kids; you’re stuck with the job of fixing the bad attitude. What, then, do you do [...]
When the boys were babies and I spent my days pushing them around town in my now disused double stroller, random seniors would stop me just to say how precious they were and how I should make the most out of my time with them because, as they would say, “Kids grow up quickly.” I [...]
Everybody lies, even kids. Lying, as I’ve written about before, is perfectly natural, and it’s not usually something on which parents should spend much time dwelling. However, it can get out of hand. It can become a habit and an anchor whereby, by lying, a kid chooses to hamper his own progress. I’m talking [...]
Italian Researchers from the University of Turin and the University of Parma tracked the motions of 5 sets of twins during gestation to study how twins interact with each other before birth. Doctors have known for years that fetuses can control their actions in the womb. This time researchers wanted to know if twin’s purposeful [...]
Of course there’s no such thing as soul mates. For someone to believe there is just one person in the world who is meant for him and that there is a statistical probability of finding that mate such that our species can continue to populate, that someone would have to believe in at least one [...]
Oh, sure. There was a big party on my wedding day. Mely and I thought marriage was a big deal, and we set off on our new lives with the world as our oyster. The feeling lasted for about a month. Then we were struck by the reality of two different people living in [...]
