A huge irritant to me is to watch people who could be spending their money to better educate their children spend it instead on stupid crap like lottery tickets. Most of us have fallen on hard times at one time or another. But, getting poor is no excuse for losing your mind. Let’s put [...]
Just when you think there’s no redemption for our modern youth, they do something to surprise you and reaffirm your faith in them, the next generation. I’ve had a series of shake-my-head moments recently with teenagers. I think to myself, ‘I was a teenager once. Was I like that?’ There’s the truth, of course, [...]
Today, folks, my writing is being featured on ReservoirDad.com Clint (Reservoir Dad) is the instigator of the Australia’s most Mentally Sexy Contest where dads have been competing against each other for popularity points and the title of most mentally sexy Australian dad. My article is concerning the topic of how men differ from women in [...]
My wife has an irrational fear of bugs, specifically bees, hornets and other buzzing, stinging things. No matter how much I try to tell her that there is a rational way to react around bees, and that they won’t bother her unless she bothers them, she freaks out every time a bee gets too [...]
I‘ve never used an online dating service but I do know a little something about the business through interactions with friends who have made fortunes in the realm of the marketing of online dating. In order to sell it one must understand it. What I’ve learned is not practical, but it is interesting. The [...]
No matter what the Experts say (opinions abound) about napping and when kids should give it up, I have found one very firm truth. It is that experts don’t know my family. I don’t know if they’re just outright wrong or if their research is accurate but not culturally significant to our circumstances. It’s [...]
My grandma had dogs, Poco and later Mon Ami (Grandma spoke French and Spanish), who died from sheer fatness well before their time. She seemed to think a 10 lb toy poodle needed the same sized dinner as a 240 lb husband. And that’s how they got fat. They lived blissfully unaware lives until [...]
What do you do when your kid won’t stop sucking his thumb? Well, if he doesn’t have his adult teeth yet, don’t do anything. Thumb sucking under age 5 is normal, and nothing to worry about (according to one resource on WebMD but not another — conflicting advice). But, as the adult teeth come [...]
I‘ve had one major failure in my life – well, two. They both happened in 5th grade – choir and band. 5th grade was not a good year for me. It’s the year I look back on and thank myself for my determined effort ever since to remain anonymous. The first failure was choir. Our [...]
The term bed wetting is used for children 4 years and up who have not mastered nighttime bladder control. Thankfully, neither of my kids have suffered with bed wetting. But, up to 7 million American kids do suffer with it, and it can be a highly aggravating situation for them as well as for [...]
Withholding affection is not an effective parenting technique, and if it were, I still wouldn’t do it. Two days ago I watched as a mother of a 3 year old attempted to employ that strategy to get her kid to participate in a gymnastics class. It was a class where the parents were supposed [...]
