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Archive for February, 2005

Frustration  

You haven’t experienced true frustration until you’ve tried to put a child to bed.

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Terrible twos  

My son has recently established that he has left the cute and cuddly world of baby bliss and entered the aptly named terrible twos. He’s two and a half, an entire year later than when his sister decided to test the waters of childhood schizophrenia. She’s left the twos behind, fortunately. Mostly [...]

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“Only You”  

PBS Kids is running a self-promo between programs that shows kids and PBS characters playing on a beach. It’s black and white with splashes of green and a catchy tune is playing in the background. I couldn’t find any reference to the song anywhere so I wrote PBS. And they wrote back [...]

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Radios  

Since my lovely and talented wife (LATW) occasionally needs to use the telephone for, you know, actual phone calls, she decided to restrict the childrens’ use of the intercom feature to essential pages only. This put a damper on their superhero play. How does one call for backup or receive a call from [...]

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Electric Version  

I finally got around to buying some tracks from Electric Version by The New Pornographers. Both of their albums are fantastic and you should check them out. And listening to them on the headphones while the kids watch Play With Me Sesame… well, watching muppets sing “We’re twisting incognito with no time, can’t [...]

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