It’s not at all unusual for our table setting routine to be preceded by a quick ‘let’s just put all of this stuff over there for now’ sweep of the maple wood surface of our lone shared dining space. Whether it’s the remnants of one of my PBS Parents learning […]
There are eight traffic lights separating the short driveway in front of our home and our grade school’s two separate parent drop-off zones. Pushing back from the gate by 7:46 A.M. affords us the time to justmiss a few of them. We’ve got to be reversing out of the driveway […]
Now that my oldest child is 11 years old and has her own phone, my wife and I have gleefully reached the point as a married couple where we can leave her in charge while we go just around the corner for a bite to eat. Date nights are back, […]
It’s hard to dodge the superhero deluge of 21st century American culture. I try my best to swerve into and out of Marvel’s hostile takeover of society, to find a comfortable balance of costumed heroics and plain clothes narrative. My daughters enjoy but are not overwhelmed by all things comic book, […]
It’s awfully difficult to project the long-term impact of this or that when they’re 7, 8 and 10. A museum exhibit or a day at the zoo. A mid-week baseball game or a weekend ballet recital. We just don’t know what will come of what. As a strident believer in […]
There’s a stream that runs alongside our home, just on the other side of the wooden fence we never weatherstripped and thus, the wooden fence that is falling apart one pathetic slat at a time. It’s not really a stream though. It’s a runoff water channel that is, at times, […]
Well this is an absurd and ridiculously disturbing report: “The most recent National Occupant Protection Use Survey (NOPUS) found that restraint use for children from birth to seven years old in 2013 dropped two percent compared to 2012, and child restraint use in the rear seats also decreased two percent during that time.” I mean, seriously? […]
Over on PBS Parents today, I’ve got a very leafy learning activity perfect for Earth Day, Arbor Day or any day this spring and summer. Take a look at how you and your kids can (and should) make a Book of Trees! I’m not the only one with the great […]
