It’s not really a secret anymore. We had a lady baby. Both our boys were a surprise. I had been initially ambivalent about finding out the gender or having it be a surprise, but Janelle and I were swayed by…
It’s not really a secret anymore. We had a lady baby. Both our boys were a surprise. I had been initially ambivalent about finding out the gender or having it be a surprise, but Janelle and I were swayed by…
There is a certain art to deciding just what will happen to your kid(s) when they get in trouble. It’s difficult to get right but if your hope is to have your kids listen to you and to respond to…
It’s been a long time. There are reasons. I am busy with the boys. I am also lazy with some things and easily distracted always. I also was not inspired. I don’t mean that I was waiting to be struck by…
I’m going to try and take another tack for this post about tantrums. The others all lost steam for me, perhaps because I wrote them in too close a proximity to an actual tantrum. They ended up feeling like a…
I’ve been absent from this blog for some time. There are reasons. Chief among these is my iPhone. The precious. A wonderful tool, but also a shackle for the easily distracted. As so much of the rest of my day…
I recently read this article by Sam Harris marking the Jimmy Kimmel annual Halloween candy prank as reprehensible. I’ll TL;DR it for you: each year Kimmel has parents film themselves telling their children that they don’t get to keep any of…
I haven’t talked too much about Matthew on the blog so far, but I feel like I need to give the little man a shout out. I get asked pretty regularly what it’s like having two children and my answer…
I’m pretty sure Joshua has night terrors [see note below for addendum!]. It’s as fun as it sounds. This has happened to us a smattering of times, but a recent event really settled it that this must be what’s going…
Star Wars is a very different thing for kids today than it was for me. It’s not that Star Wars wasn’t marketed out the wazoo when I was little… but that marketing is much more faceted. In addition to standard…