Psychology Today Magazine reports an interesting study done on monkeys into the affects of touch as it relates to mental health. The results are somewhat unsurprising; it boils down to this: monkeys go nuts if they aren’t touched. The more they are touched the better they perform. We all know that scientists don’t do [...]
I‘ve collected several notorious Youtube videos that demonstrate the worst in kid behavior (below). Before I start pretending my boys are perfect let me make it clear that they both have had their own civility issues. I chalk those moments up to their hormones or immaturity or both. But, it is inconceivable to me [...]
Every few days I make a trip around the blogosphere to check on what other dads are saying about their lives and their experiences. Usually I find things that are mildly interesting to me but not particularly relevant to anything I can talk about. Today I read an article at Dadshouseblog.com that I [...]
We had a rocky start with our older son’s dental care. Tooth care was off my radar as a new parent, and I just didn’t do a good enough job keeping up on it. The result was that two years ago the boy had to have a tooth removed because of decay. I’m not [...]
HH Some people are habitual liars and thieves, but those people are rare. Most of us are only partially naughty at heart, and we’re only a little selfish. Have I stolen before? Yup. Will my kids steal something at some point? You betcha! Are we bad people? No, and I would say we’re actually pretty [...]
When I was a kid I used to participate in fund raising events for the various sports clubs that I belonged to. The one I remember the best was the Jasper Valley Swim Team. It was just a little local, Amherst NH, Tennis club that also happened to have a pretty darn good swim [...]
There are risk takers and there are those who play it safe. It’s my belief that we are, to some degree, pre-programmed to be one or the other. Within these two broad categories there are two more varieties of people. It may come as a surprise that being a risk taker does not necessarily [...]
Okay, technically speaking, chivalry has been dead for a long long time. We, in our modern times, do not ride around on horses with lances and swords, and we do not have fiefdoms and serfs, and most of us do not seek the church’s blessings before embarking on our careers. Chivalry is quite assuredly [...]
It’s a tall order. My oldest boy, Neil, is not much of a whiner, but his brother has just about mastered the art of verbal manipulation. He’s done it ever since I can remember, but I only determined to stop it recently. I should have taken care of it much sooner. My unprofessional opinion is [...]
My boys do gymnastics. While it is physical activity, which is good, it isn’t free play. Free play with other kids is a necessary part of child development. There is an article in the Boston Globe that is reporting on the need for kids to have unstructured play. Apparently kids lack the imagination these [...]
I was looking outside my window this morning enjoying the view of my neighborhood and suddenly realized how nice it is to live in a place with such character. I live in an old established neighborhood that doesn’t have a HOA (Home Owners Association), and I’m thankful for it. People living in suburbia are not [...]
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