You know those days when you don’t get enough sleep and it’s Tuesday or Wednesday or some other day not a weekend and you wake up late and you have to rush the kids through breakfast and getting dressed and they seem just a little grumpier than usual and you really don’t want them to [...]

Stumbled across a site for making checklists and discovered some lists on parenting. Here’s one: What kids should be able to do on their own (age 6+). Cute but not very practical. Science has shown that children are non-stop engines of destruction. This is a fact (look it up). Knowing that a child should be [...]

I don’t mean to be depressing. But you know when you enter an annual recurring event in your calendar and the calendar asks you when the event ends? Well, I like to think about that whenever I enter birthdays. In physics there are the related concepts of potential and kinetic energy. Potential energy is all [...]

I’ve discussed this with a couple of moms this month and they agree: in some ways being a single parent is actually easier than dual parenting. For instance, any decision I make is final. There are no discussions with a spouse or overturned decisions and there are no sneaky appeals. I don’t have to compromise. [...]

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Being a parent means late nights, early mornings, helping with homework, opening the peanut butter, teaching manners, saying no, saying yes, changing diapers, putting yourself second, making time, knowing why, faking it, making it better, setting an example, discipline, worry, happiness, fear, pride, and love. Sometimes it means going for a glass of water and [...]

No matter how hard you try you will never convince a 3-year old boy that showing you the half-chewed food in his mouth is not funny.

“There are three golden rules for bringing up children. Alas, no one knows what they are.” — Mrs. Bradley

So I needed some soap while I was in the shower this morning and I called out to my lovely and talented wife to please get me some. She rummaged for a minute and said we were out. “Give me the soft soap,” I said. She mumbled something and came back with a bar of [...]