I’ve made a striking discovery in the last 24 hours. WE ARE SUMMER PEOPLE!!! My wife and I have spent our whole lives in various parts of the Midwest, so you’d think that we would have gotten used to the winter by now. Turns out, it doesn’t work that way. You don’t get used to [...]
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Curing The Winter Blues
Posted in Day To Day, Parenting, tagged surviving winter, tips for, winter blues on February 6, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Snowed In Memories
Posted in Day To Day, Parenting, tagged blizzard, first memory, memories, snow day, snowed in on February 2, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’ve been following the news then you know that those of us in the midwest are getting pounded by a winter storm. Of course, given my luck, I broke my snow shovel about 3 minutes into trying to shovel down my driveway. In my duct tape, DIY, bearded-man mentality I thought, “I’ll just slam [...]
Childproofing The House
Posted in Parenting, Remodeling, tagged cabinet locks, Childproofing, drawer locks on February 1, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Our daughter is five, soon to be six, and our son will be two in a couple of weeks. Some people may be surprised to learn that we have yet to childproof our house. No locks on drawers, cabinets, etc. We’ve done some logical things like move the poisons, medicines, sharp objects, etc out of [...]
Censorship
Posted in Parenting, tagged censoring childrens media, censoring media, parenting on January 22, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Something that my wife and I had decided on long ago was to not censor what our kids get to watch, listen to, etc. We’ve always let them watch the same movies that we do, listen to the same music, watch me play video games, etc. Our thought process has always been that one way [...]
