There are a lot of people going green these days. Who doesn’t like to get good mileage and know that their food is pesticide free? But a lot of us draw the line at our deodorant. There have been theories circulating on the Internet that the aluminum in antiperspirants may cause cancer or have […]
It was real cold here on Sunday, so it seemed like the perfect time for some comfort food and to try out some recipes from John Besh’s My Family Table, which The Wife had just […]
For the parent who has read aloud Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What Do You See? for the thousandth time, the recent success of children’s book parodies affords a welcome respite. Representative books […]
Every parent worries about how they will handle the big three conversations with their kids: God, death and sex. My boy just turned two so I felt pretty comfortable that all of those conversations were a ways off.
But life has a way of surprising us. My son loves to sing, dance, draw and do […]
Children and God is certainly a subject a lot of us have an opinion about. A mother who writes a blog about raising her children without religion, just submitted an article to CNN iReport that talks about her experience:
I do not want religion to go away. I only want […]
The Kid, as with most two-year olds, is pretty impatient when something either has lost his interest or was insufficiently stimulating to begin with. For instance, when he’s done eating, he’s “all done.” When one task is completed, it’s time to move on to the next one. None of these characteristics would […]
On the New York Public Library’s blog, John Flood, asked an interesting question: “Are you a Max Person or a Peter Person?” He was of course referring to Max from Where the […]
As the father of a two-year old, I’ve spent a lot of time in playgrounds the past couple of years. But I am amazed I never really noticed until recently that there weren’t any more seesaws. I only really had to think about it for about a second and realized that the lawyers had […]
To say that publishing is going through an upheaval is perhaps an understatement. But the movement from print to digital is not only changing the business models of book publishers, it is also changing what we actually read. When I first had The Kid I was looking forward to reading him some of my […]
Last week I was at the West River Farmer’s Market in Londonderry, Vermont. If you are ever in the neighborhood on a Saturday morning in the summer it really is the place to be. The fresh produce is not to be believed and there is usually a band playing to make the […]
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