We push too many adult concepts on our kids at too early of an age. Promises are one of them, and the best part is that we have a pretty miserable track record of keeping them ourselves. The other day, my wife and I promised our children that they could have ice cream when we got home from dinner. This …
You can be the BEST DAD EVER with the DadBot 3000™! You can’t always be “Dad of the Year,” you’re not the perfect father, and you are certainly not expected to be. You can never give your children everything they want all the time. Your kids will misbehave, mostly due to their inner kid-dom, and you might be the one …
We already know that parents of daughters will be in serious trouble in a few, short years. It goes by so fast.* What is analogous to this whole quandary, then, when it comes to mothers and fathers of sons? What do strangers commonly claim that young boys will turn into as teenagers that parents should fear and dread in advance? …
Two kids are playing on the playground. They are not friends, but one has a toy plane. If you look closely into the window of the plane, there is no pilot, plastic or otherwise. The kid who owns the plane is buzzing it about at the top of the slide. He spots the other kid below, so he starts taunting …
**Spoiler Alert!! Article contains privileged information about certain men in red suits, and we are not referring to less-than-forunate crew members of the USS Enterprise. The other men in red suits.** No, Virginia, there is not a Santa Claus. The clatter that arose on the rooftop? That may have been some icicles, or some birds, but it was not Santa. …