Quinn has been emulating my caretaking routines with Lyra. He carries his favorite stuffed animal (”American Bear” 
everywhere, and lately he’s been telling me that “American Bear is a baby bear.”
When I sit in my office and work after putting him down for a nap, I can hear him playing in his room, talking to [...]
Here’s something from Ye Olde Email Archive that was sent to me a long, long time ago. A lot of you may be familiar with it–someone else sent it to me when I was still living in Germany, which makes this list at least twelve years old. Back then, I didn’t have any kids of [...]
There’s a thing over at USA Today that claims only 159,000 men in this country are full-time caregivers for their children, which would make me part of a very small minority.
What kind of ticks me off about that little snippet is the attached poll. The question is “How would you describe stay-at-home-fathers”, and the choices [...]
After months of tireless drilling, Quinn now consistently uses the phrases “Thank you”, “Please”, “You’re welcome”, and “Gesundheit” every time their use is warranted.
He may grow up to be a genius physicist, a famous artist, or the slacker clerk at the adult DVD store down the road in Claremont, but he will be polite.
It’s amazing that this point needs to be made, but here you go:
If you have guns and a young child in the house, you have a moral and legal obligation to keep the guns where the child can’t get to them. Keeping a fully-loaded pistol in a nightstand in your bedroom does not constitute “child-proof [...]
One of the zillion cool things about having kids:
Showing your kid how to blow the seeds off a dandelion, and watching his expression when you demonstrate the process for the first time. He just looked at me like, “That is the absolute coolest thing I’ve ever seen.”
It’s amazing how much we take the little details [...]
No matter how much your three-year-old kid loves Thomas the Tank Engine, you should never
a.) purchase a Thomas the Tank Engine musical toothbrush that regurgitates a cutesy song for exactly three minutes every time you push the button, and then
b.) give in to your toddler’s request to show him how to “play the music song [...]
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