Saying “no” came very easy to The Kid. I’m not even really sure when he started. At 19 months old, it’s been a part of his vocabulary for a very long time now. He doesn’t use it like a two-year old might. There’s no real defiance. It more a statement of opinion.
Me: “Do […]
If you have been watching the Olympics and have not skipped over all of the commercials you have probably seen a promo for the new NBC sitcom Guys with Kids. Not sure about you, but it’s easily my most anticipated new show for the fall. Clearly, NBC thinks there is a market […]
Truth be told, I had always wanted an ice cream maker, but I thought it was one of those wedding presents that you never used and just took up shelf space. So I had managed to hold off. We kept ourselves happy with a pint or two of Ben & Jerry’s always at the […]
I can still remember the doctor’s words at The Kid’s three-month visit like it was yesterday: “Your child is old enough to sleep through the night. You will just have to let him cry it out. If you don’t do it now, it will just be more difficult once he gets older.” My wife […]
Of all of the big ticket purchases I’ve made for The Kid, the one major mistake I made was to buy a budget jogger. The first jogger I bought was the Jeep Overland with a front fixed wheel. If the name Jeep stands […]
We’ve known for a while that older kids get outside and play in nature less and less these days. In short, there is a nature deficit. But a new study in the journal Sociological Inquiry points out that this may start even earlier than we thought. Here is how Sara Novak described the situation in […]
The Kid just turned a year old and pretty much all of his waking hours to date have either been spent with dad or mom or maybe one of the grandparents, so it was with a little trepidation that I took him the children’s play room at my gym. I use the phrase “my gym” […]
I think for the most part people find a lullaby that’s familiar to them – maybe even one that their parents sang when they were infants. My mother sang Baa Baa Black Sheep to me. But when The Kid came into the world I wasn’t actually prepared with anything (I didn’t even know the […]
I think most Americans are a little lost in trying to understand why soccer is the most popular sport on this world. After all, at least the teams score a few runs in a baseball game and football has a lot of action (ie, violence). If soccer is the beautiful game, then beauty truly […]
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