Category: Parenting
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Communicating with your child..
I have a friend, her name is Joy, who is always a wonderful person to bounce parenting problems and solutions off of. She is very concientious about her methodology and her tactics when it…
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Music For All Ages
I don’t know how I stumbled upon him, but sometime ago (I think my son was two?) I began a quest for music that my son and I could share. I found some wonderful…
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Do these make my butt look big??
So my six year old son has become utterly self conscious about his image. Yes, his image. I wasn’t aware that he had an image, but apparently he does. Silly me. I thought I…
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Saturdays Are Daddy Days
Many dads, like myself, have to work Monday through Friday. We only get to see our sons and daughters in the morning before we leave to work, and in the early evening when we…
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Lovely Six…….
Little boys go through quite a tumult of emotional and physical growth spurts between the ages of three and six. I can remember my angelic three year old son, practically overnight, becoming this very…
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Software Fluke Causes Engaged Couple to Break Up After 5 Years of Dating
A woman using the Firefox web browser discovered her fiancé’s secret life by accident. Here’s a detailed account of what happened, and instructions on how to reproduce the “bug.” (from Bugzilla) This privacy flaw…
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Adult Children Are Living At Home Longer
CBC reports that adult children are living at home longer. However, instead of staying home, they’re leaving home, and then coming back. They’re calling them “boomerang” offspring. Peter Morgan is typical of the trend.…
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See Spot Run
It was like someone hit a switch in his mind — it came out of nowhere. My son picked up a book, one of those ancient Dick & Jane books, and started reading it…
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Helping My Daughter Say Goodbye To An Old Friend, “Bear.”
When my daughter first met Bear she was only a few months old. Although my wife and I called him Bear from the beginning, he was known as “mnguh” by my daughter. This was…
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World Travelin’ Snacks
I have always loved that my kids are fairly experimental with their eating habits. My 19-month-old loves Indian food (her favorite is Sag or Vegetable Korma) and my six year old is a glutton…