To what extend would you go to retrieve a toy that your kid says he can’t do without? Leaving aside the debate of whether the kid actually needs the toy, search and rescue time depends on both the likelihood that said toy will be found and the effort required to retrieve it. No two [...]
7 year old boys do not usually imitate and play make-believe as female fictional characters. The big controversy that I’ve always heard has been about the lack of strong female characters for little girls to admire and imitate. The complaint among activists and mothers has always been that girls lack the heroic character base [...]
Do you sometimes feel like a dispensary of useless knowledge, someone like Cliff Clavin? I do. I posses knowledge that, against my will, occupies space that could otherwise be put to much better use. I know things like the world’s smallest hummingbird is from Cuba and is just a little bigger than a dime, an [...]
There may not be one definitive best way to discipline your kid, but there is certainly a long list of to-not-do’s. We’ve all read the papers. Most of us, for instance, know that macing your infant is not good discipline. Spanking? Well that depends on a lot of factors that I’m not going to [...]
Trevor Wilson is co-founder of Tootlee.com where their motto is, “total potential in kids”! They believe kids have many talents and gifts to give the world. Too often we hold them back. Tootlee is about letting people see how capable, gifted and talented kids really are! These amazing kids are making relevant and real contributions to our [...]
Celebrity worship has been around a long time. We might think today’s famous people are unique in their wealth and fawning public, but they aren’t. The highest paid sports celebrity of all time was a Roman Charioteer, Gaius Appuleius Diocles, whose career earnings equaled roughly 15 billion dollars in today’s money. This is how it [...]
We aren’t rich, and the boys are used to being told no. But, ingratitude is a relative matter. It can happen at any income level. Let me explain. We have a pile of Starbucks gift cards. We go there several times a week in the evenings to get a coffee for us and a [...]
Papa K is an extroverted-introvert Hell bent on becoming not only a successful blogger… but a successful blogger that writes about nothing in particular. In an overcrowded “industry”, where themed blogs seem to generate a high number of readers, he’s looking at breaking that mold and eventually becoming bigger than Google. Help him reach his [...]
The reasons behind the State’s punishment of criminals are as follow: Retribution, Deterrence, Incapacitation, and Rehabilitation. Criminal justice is one thing. But we’re parents. We don’t punish our kids out of retribution or incapacitation. All we want is deterrence and rehabilitation. After all my kids are 6 and 7; wouldn’t it be silly to [...]
My kids have had to do chores for about a year now. I put them in charge of cleaning their room, taking out the trash, picking up and setting the table for meals, and some other small duties around the house. They do those chores without much complaint, and they do a decent job [...]
Marcus Tullius Cicero was proscribed and assassinated by the second triumvirate in 43 BC. He’s known as Rome’s most accomplished orator and one of its best politicians. Among his claims to fame is his opposition to Julius Caesar and later his failed attempt to bring back the Republic by denouncing Mark Antony after Caesar’s assassination. [...]
