*Big thanks to The Huffington Post for also running with this humorous back to school / parent-teacher conference post! Twice a year they meet with us, many of us, in 20-minute increments, stacked like six-packs of 4×4 In-n-Out Burgers (Protein Style, natch.) In hallways we wait, we sit and we […]
I knew that someday soon my oldest daughter would start to be presented with real life dangers in a constructive way to help her navigate through potential pitfalls and hazards on the way toward becoming a happy and productive adult. But I didn’t anticipate this.
4th and 1st. That’s what started this week. It was scheduled and planned for, but remains nonsensical because the warmth is still here and we all know the stickiness will return before a single leaf turns red. It’s confusing because the backyard play equipment is more than capable of taking […]
Mapping the years through hair styles, iPhone photo quality improvements, and ice cream. I present the Bear x 5 from Kindergarten through Monday’s entry into 4th Grade.
Because everything needs a great soundtrack, I’ve compiled one for the 2013 Back to School Season. It is up and running right now over on Red Tricycle as a slideshow with a few words about each of the 15 songs and a Spotify playlist so you can listen to the whole damn thing. Easy Peasy.
I’ve got two kids in school now and something has drastically changed: there are twice as many pieces of paper entering my home and taking up residence on our many flat surfaces. Quick aside: I joked with a buddy once about how, if it were up to me, there would […]
The kindie punk-folk pair Key Wilde & Mr. Clarke have been rather dormant of late, frustratingly so to be honest, but they returned this week to deliver a lovely Key Wilde-animated video for their alphabet tune. Listen, your lil’ little one will eventually have to learn his letters, right? So […]
There’s a scene in my favorite movie of all time, Kicking and Screaming (and before you ask, no, NOT the one with Will Ferrell), when one slightly older male character says to a youthful female on her 17th birthday: “hey, now you can read Seventeen Magazine and get all the […]
