The following is an actual confrontation between a giggling nine-year-old boy and his emotional six-year-old sister, who is not afraid to call him out. My six-year-old daughter was on the deck
My kids ran downstairs from their virtual school desks and saw the TV on pause. I was busy putting lunch on the table when my kids sang in unison, “Unpause the Reds Game” clap, clap,
This summer, my six-year-old daughter lost her left earring in her Gaga’s pool. We didn’t know it fell out until it was too late and the hole closed shut. She didn’t get a new
The sound of the kids running around after breakfast abruptly came to a stop. They all stood frozen at the sliding glass door watching a massive metal beast move through the trees behind our house. A
“Da-da! Da-da!” screams the tiniest loud voice in the house. I walk into my one-and-a-half-year-old daughter’s room. She peaks over the rails of her crib with crazy bed head.
My five-year-old daughter watched with excitement as my son rode away in the backseat of his friend’s mom’s van. With my one-year-old sleeping, my daughter had me all to herself.
If you hear instructions one way and your kids hear them another way, what do you do? Let them have a
As my wife backed out of the driveway on her way to work, she rolled down the window and called my name. “Good luck with school today,” she said, “and make sure the kids don’t
In the classic song New York Minute, Don Henley sang, “In a New York Minute, everything can change”. As a stay-at-home dad, I’d like to add a new chorus to the song, “In a