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Robbed on Christmas, How do I Explain this to a Toddler?

When we came back from Christmas dinner with my in-laws, we discovered our back door was wide open: we had been robbed.

The Videogame Question

On one of my many adventures on the Internet I read an article that had a bunch of parents commenting about how they’re trying to keep their kids away from videogames for as long as possible—sometimes to the age of eight. Sacrilege, I say!

Rock and Roll All Night and “Sleep All” Day

I’m calling it a day. Child, you have bested me. Against all my best efforts to get you to sleep on a regular schedule you have prevailed as the most energetic of the three of us.

On Courage...or Something Like It

Do you find yourself leaning more towards a safe life-style now that you’re a parent?

Elly's First Guitar

How hard can a two-year-old rock? It’s every parent’s dream that their child will take to one of their hobbies. We try to get them interested, but probably fail.

Reading to a Toddler II: The eBook Frontier

How does the eBook fair against a toddler?

A Little Less Like Tarzan, a Little More Like George

Last week we bought some new curtains for Elly’s playroom to give the room a little more style. Elly decided she wanted to swing on the curtains and I would be too distracted to stop her as I was setting them up.

Reading to a Toddler: Concept Versus Reality

I never realized reading to a toddler could be more like a boxing match than a leisure activity.

Graduate School and Baby

I am a cautionary story. Do not, I repeat, do not volunteer yourself to have a baby while in graduate school. It’s bad enough to have a baby keep you up all night or pulling frequent all-nighters to finish a thesis, but both at the same time is terrible.

So We Found a Really Awesome Carriage Before We Could Buy a Horse

So let’s look at it this way, if you were planning on buying a horse and then buying a carriage, but you found the perfect carriage on your way to buy the horse, is it really so wrong to buy that carriage first?

Locked in the Basement

When Elle was a newborn I remember hearing our upstairs neighbor getting locked out of her apartment by her two-year-old son. I figured I’d never be in that potion, but I was wrong.

Why I Cleaned Up My Facebook Account When My Daughter Was Born

I like to think I was reasonably young when my daughter was born: 24. People are having kids older and older these days. While 24 sounds like a normal age to have kids I only had three friends at the time that already had kids—all lived out of state at the time. I felt a bit like a pioneer.

Tiger Parents: Not a Hat

I have a big head. I don’t mean metaphorically, I mean my head is larger than the majority of other people. “One Size Fits All” hats don’t properly fit on my head.

Five Things I Learned From Kids Shows As An Adult

Kids' Television Programming. It's really not as bad as I thought they would be.