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 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…
There’s a thing I hear all the time from grandparents (though not from either of our parents, actually, at least not to our faces) that always makes me a little crazy. Stories about kids not wanting to wear pull-ups to…
I’ve referenced it recently, but Joshua got sick not too long ago. As I was carrying him around, he was resting his head on my shoulder and began to throw up all over the place. I like to think I’m…
Much of this will be preamble, but I think it’s necessary to really set up the situation at the end. It’s been a rough week. Rough for everyone in the family, and rough for Daddy in a different way. I…
Joshua loves to ask the same question over and over again. Dozens of times. Over many days. I’m not sure why it is. He has an excellent memory and will regularly bring up small details about events that happened as…
Sometimes I just want to stop Joshua, put my hands on his little shoulders and say “I know you are lying to me, my little friend.” Not as if it would matter if I did. You hear all the time…
So Joshua is a generally well-behaved kid. He’s prone to have either full-blown or miniature tantrums on a sort of regular basis, but that’s almost always either because he needs more sleep or is having something he expected changed on…