UsThis is a place holder linking to my article in the Seminole Chronicle. Click here to access it. I’m having the link open in a separate window this time, so that you can still post comments if you’d like. Keywords: Seminole Town Center, mall, playground, bully, Tarzan, Harry Potter.
Read MoreContinuing my week of scary tales, this one takes us back to the bathroom. Yes, the bathroom. There’s nothing scarier than the bathroom. You may remember that I lost an argument with my wife regarding teaching C to stand up in the bathroom. Well, I’m still paying for it. The other day found me once […]
Read MoreWhat could be more frightening to a 4 year old than being lost underground in complete darkness?
Read MoreAs I may have mentioned before, we do a lot of singing with the kids. Part of the reason for this is J’s camp background. Her years as a camp director left her with quite a collection of camp songs. Some of these songs, strangely enough, are converted spirituals. So it was that I found […]
Read MoreThe only big “fear” that the kids really have is fireworks. They’re generally okay with a lot of traditional scary things – dark, spiders, snakes, lightning, etc. Fireworks, however, set them to screaming in fear. From a parent’s point of view, this is actually not too bad. I mean, fireworks are fairly easy to avoid. The […]
Read MoreWhen it comes to pretending, the kids have gone through several phases. They’ve always loved trains and pretending to ride on them. There was also a rather long Tarzan period, and, of course, the rescue heroes. One of the recurring themes, however, has been pirates. Pretending to be a pirate has one serious advantage over […]
Read MoreThis is a marker for the tale posted in the Seminole Chronicle (click here to read). Here’s the intro: Festival season around here is the best time of the year. The weather’s great, the festivals are fun… it all comes together. Just before festival season, however, is when you end up having the most unusual […]
Read MoreDuring our last vacation, we visited Chatanooga. One of Chatanooga’s primary attractions is its aquarium. It’s been so successful, in fact, that they built another one right next to it. One is fresh water and the other is salt. They are really quite impressive – even for someone who lives just up the road from […]
Read MoreN is in an interesting phase where he’s identifying his emotions and trying to display them. If he gets hurt or upset, he’ll tell you that he’s angry, sad, or whatever, and then do his best to maintain the appropriate facial expression. You may remember when his older brother went through this phase. The other […]
Read MoreJust in case I might have been starting to think too much of myself after the last tale, N provided me with a little reality check the other morning. Most mornings, he wakes up very early. By early, I mean around 5:45 to 6 am. Since I try to get up between 6 and 6:30, […]
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