My 10 month old daughter started crawling this week. After weeks of being a hair’s breadth to crawling this has got to feel pretty good for her. She’s been crawling backwards for a month and it was getting frustrating for her to get further away from her goal every time she tried moving towards a [...]

The last couple of weeks found me walking in the door to a mixture of gun fire and children screaming. Not real guns mind you, but those found at the end of a child’s wrist looking astonishingly enough like their hand. I casually dismissed this the first few times.
“We don’t play with real, or [...]

The other day I was looking through some old school work my three year old daughter had completed. We like to decorate our dining area with whatever art projects she brings home and rotate them out every couple of months. We’ve also started doing this with our two year old as she has become quite [...]

We try to teach our children right from wrong. Really we do. We also like to sit back and see what they are able to figure out on their own. This last is purely for the entertainment value.
Recently we were all moving from the living room into the kitchen when I saw, from the corner [...]

I’m not terribly fond of people and when they are presented in large hoards my tolerance wanes even more. Maybe that first sentence stands to be corrected a bit. I’m not terribly fond of stupid, lazy, inconsiderate people.
This last July 4th found my family and I settling in for the fireworks display at the local [...]

Parent hacks has an interesting little post about night terrors. The gist is, if your kid wakes up with a bad dream work with them to create a new one. Worth a
quick read.

Whew, what a weekend. I took several days off and went camping with my son and his Cub Scout troop. I vowed to make this tip different from last. This time I came PREPARED!. I packed so much stuff for our 3 day-2 night trip that if we packed an extra toothbrush I think I [...]

I believe I’ve mentioned before that I come from a family of six. There are four siblings from my mothers first marriage and my younger brother and I from my mothers second marriage. We aren’t a close family. Despite this dysfunctional family unit (we were dysfunctional before it was cool) I have always thought a [...]