If you were to search the archives for “Church Voice”, you’d find quite a number of tales. There’s something about the particular combination of various social, parental, and priestly pressures on little kids that causes all sorts of bizarre things to happen. Not long ago, I was in church with my five year old. He […]
Read MoreThe kids are very much into pretending to feed me. Every time I turn around, one or the other has some special pretend drink, snack, or cookie for me to eat. At first, I thought this was a lot of fun, and I hammed up eating the pretend offering pretty much every time it was […]
Read MoreAs Chronicle readers may remember, we have an ongoing issue with my wife trying to convince the kids to share their pizzas. For those that don’t remember, here’s the story. The other day we had a leftovers meal (cleaning out the fridge of the week’s leftovers). Leftover meals are actually kind of fun. There’s never enough […]
Read MoreToday’s tale is in the Seminole Chronicle. You can read it here. Keywords for searchers: party, couch, train, photo
Read MoreAs I think I mentioned before, C’s pre-K classroom uses what is called the traffic light system. The idea behind this system is to have a giant picture of a traffic light on the wall of the classroom. Kids have their names or pictures clipped to the picture. If you are bad, your picture moves […]
Read MoreIf you’ve been reading along, you’ve no doubt realized that our two boys sometimes seem as different as two people can get. This was really driven home to me the other day as we were cleaning up. They had been playing some sort of game with their mom that involved extremely large plastic bowls. I’m […]
Read MoreC loves Sprite. Whenever we’re at a restaurant, that’s one of the first things he asks for. We don’t usually give it to him, of course, but he always asks. In fact, he and his brother are curious about pretty much everything that adults drink. The other day when we went out for pizza, instead of […]
Read MoreOne of our birthday traditions for the kids is a trip to the Magic Kingdom at Disney. C’s trip (he just turned 5) started out a little rocky. The big guy was acting strangely all morning. When we talked about what rides we were going to do, he was quiet. When we talked about things that […]
Read More“It’s hard being five.” That was C’s opening line to me at breakfast this morning. He turned five years old last week, and apparently was finding it a bit tougher than he’d expected. “Oh yeah?” I asked, “Why?” “Yellow stickers and green stickers and red stickers… Oh yeah. It’s hard being five.” His kindergarten readiness […]
Read MoreSchool started up again last week for C. For kids in pre-K, this is a time of lots of adjustments. New friends, new teachers, less free time… all that fun stuff. After work on Monday, I both wanted to hear how his first day went, and wanted to get some playtime in with him. I figured he […]
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