Archive for April, 2005
Potty training, redux
Actual conversation. The lovely and talented wife had just sat the boy down on the toilet and given him a quick refresher course on toilet usage. Note to new parents: you have to be pretty specific with boys about where you expect them to aim.
Wife: Ok, now sit here. And don’t shoot [...]
Do you hear an echo in here?
Having two children means repeating yourself at least twice as often as you did with only one. Children aren’t really expected to listen and follow instructions until about 30 months, but by then many couples will have already had a second. It’s a clever bit of evolution. Children who started ignoring their [...]
Some out of the ordinary children’s movies
You should definitely check out Kiki’s Delivery Service and My Neighbor Totoro by Hayao Miyazaki. We’ve been watching them for months. The art and animation are beautiful and the stories are elegantly simple. Both feature a strong, young female protagonist and are told from the children’s perspective. Each story builds slowly [...]
But I grew up watching Bugs Bunny — a cross-dressing, wise-cracking rabbit
I don’t know about that Higgly Town Heroes show. Each episode, the kids call on an everyday hero to help them with a problem — the mail carrier, the towtruck driver, the crossing guard. So far so good, but they’ve also got a pizza delivery guy in the show. They haven’t made [...]
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