Time Out is a difficult thing for both parents and kids. The idea is simple enough: you find a place in your house that is safe and relatively isolated. When the child is bad enough to warrant punishment, you put them in Time Out. This means they have to go sit in that place for […]
Read MoreThe other night was beautiful here, so we packed up dinner and went to the park to have a picnic. The park we go to has mulch covering the playground, however, and this is a problem. C likes to throw mulch when he’s Being Bad. So, we’re sitting on the blanket eating, and C decides […]
Read More[First a little setup: Our house is set up with baby gates so that the kids (and dogs) are confined to the den, kitchen, and their bedrooms. This means we don’t have to worry about baby proofing the entire house. I work upstairs in the mornings and come downstairs to have a brief breakfast and […]
Read MoreThis is certainly a bit unsettling. It seemed easy enough when I came up with the idea, but now that it’s in front of me, I seem to have a bit of stage fright. Ah well, nothing for it but to start. First an introduction: I’m a working dad (two jobs) in Orlando with two […]
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