From the category archives:

kids

fear

January 28, 2010

For the first time today, I really missed my old job. I got an email from a friend and former coworker about her visit to the office where we used to work, to have lunch with people we used to work with. Reading her note, the pang of remorse I felt came as a complete [...]

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when to intervene?

November 30, 2009

My grandma would yell “Don’t run!” whenever she spotted me moving at any pace faster than a stroll. I swear she said it every time I saw her. I thought she was being ridiculous. Clearly she didn’t want me to have any fun. Maybe I should blame her for my sedentary tendencies? But that’s another [...]

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bam bam

November 24, 2009

We’ve never been really big on nicknames for our kids. I mean, we call our kids by pet names — Owen is often “O,” “Little Dude,” “Big Guy,” while Nicholas is “Baby,” “Little,” etc. But neither has really had an official nickname. Now one of them does. From this point forward, Nicholas shall officially be [...]

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nearly wordless wednesday: school picture day

October 21, 2009

This is my nice smile for mommy.

Don’t I look innocent?

Uh … gotta go.

Dude, are you still pointing that thing at me?

I’m telling you, man, we’re done.

Seriously? Do I have to tell you again?

Dude is gonna rock picture day.

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risk

September 30, 2009

Our boys are so different from each other. They’re similar in some ways, too — they look a lot alike, they both wake up at the asscrack of dawn, they’re both pretty happy kids. But in many ways they are just very different people. One such difference is how they approach taking risks.
Owen — four [...]

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