I never understood what was meant by the term the birds and the bees until I looked it up today on Wikipedia, of course Wikipedia. I still don’t entirely get it. It explains to me that the term possibly dates as far back as Shakespeare’s time. That’s interesting. From what I gather it [...]
I told the boys last week that we would be going to a funeral very soon for their great-grandma because she is close to death. The first thing Neil said was, “Yay! Vacation time!” I smiled and laughed. I guess, for a kid, a vacation is exactly what it is. I thought maybe [...]
I remember my first bike, but I don’t remember learning how to ride it. That was a little frustrating for me when I went and tried to teach my boys to ride their bikes. I couldn’t remember how I felt, and I thought I would have a harder time empathizing with them about learning. One look [...]
Stay at home dads are going to hell by Reverend Hagee The public perception of stay at home dads is that of a group of guys who can’t find jobs and have no skills so they decided to stay at home with their kids. That perception is crap, and the people who perpetrate it are [...]
Here we are, in a neighborhood full of liberally minded people. If I were to make an assumption about each of my neighbors it would be that every last one of them is politically liberal. I am somewhat more conservative (at least economically speaking). Is it a problem that my neighbors and I disagree on taxes and [...]
Most young families will move several times early on – probably in search of a job. It isn’t just the bad economy that drives us to seek new jobs and move. Even in a good economy workers will sacrifice permanence for opportunity. Employees don’t stay at the same jobs for 30 years anymore like [...]
There were over 4 million births in the US in 2007 according to USA Today, and there are roughly 1000 reasonably popular baby names. That means, according to basic division, that parents looking for unique baby names will need to dive deep into obscurity to find one. There are some guidelines that all new parents [...]
I was wandering through the book store a few weeks ago with my kids. We were looking for books that I could read out loud to them. There was a teenager in the isle with us, and somehow I managed to get into a conversation with him. Through the course of talking about books [...]
For the past three years I have been scratching my head wondering why so many parents have trouble getting their kids to go into the water. My oldest boy was swimming the crawl when he was three and had finished the Red Cross level 4 swim classes when he was 4. I thought “wow! I’m [...]
Parenting is a ubiquitous term used to describe something that is actually quite specific and unique. Most of us will be parents during our lives, that’s true. But when we do become parents we’ll develop our own techniques for performing the job, techniques that are exceptional and different. No two parenting jobs are exactly the [...]
One ritual that every family will eventually participate in is the road trip. The routine is universal. Wake up early, get the car packed, throw the kids in the back seat, and head off to Aunt someone-or-other’s house. But, somewhere down the road, one or both of the kids will have to pee. [...]
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