From the category archives:

kids

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 — [...]

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mute monday

September 14, 2009

I’m too impatient to wait for wordless Wednesday. Credit to Lisa for this awesome series of photos.

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curling

July 21, 2009

I like saying parenting is like curling. You know, that sport in the Winter Olympics where they push a big heavy polished stone across ice and then frantically sweep in front of it with brooms to try and guide its course and make it go as far and as straight as possible but they can’t [...]

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could there be a cuter evil laugh?

July 10, 2009

For Father’s Day I did an interview with Tatiana over at It Was A Very Good Year. One of her questions was what badass things my kids have learned from me. Here’s one.

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fighting nature

July 8, 2009

I see myself in my kids. This can be good and this can be bad. Something I’m seeing now in Owen, who will be four in a couple of weeks (and again, where the hell did four years go?), is my tendency to sit around like a lump. Watching TV, playing video games, generally avoiding [...]

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the birthday party conundrum

June 5, 2009

What do you do for a four-year old’s birthday? Every parent faces this, right? Do we have a party or take them someplace special with a friend? If we have a party, who do we invite? How big should it be? Do we have to invite the whole class? Do we have to invite THAT [...]