It's a new phrase that my kid picked up from daycare.  (Gotta love a place where children get a chance to expand their vocabularies.) He uses it whenever he doesn't get his way, which lately seems often. Of course he says those four words to get a rise out of me, and has no clue what they really mean, but that doesn't make [...]
First of all, I don't have anywhere to put an au pair, Chinese or otherwise (unless my wife lets her sleep in the bed with us, and my guess is that that's not an option). Second, I can't afford to pay a decent salary to an au pair, a nanny, a manny, or any other stranger [...]
Of all the things that stand out for me about the late Steve Irwin, aka the Crocodile Hunter, was the fact that at the end of the day he was a family man. He had two children and a wife. The youngest of his children is my son's age, and that little boy will never be able to [...]
I'm all for Labor Day, really I am. Any governement sanctioned day off that I can use to spend time with my wife and son is a good day. Any day that recognizes the average working Joe, which I am, is a day I can support. Any day that encourages firing up the barbecue and swilling (lite) [...]
if someone told you that your toddler had been molested by a neighbor? According to an article in today's New York Times a dad in a quiet Connecticut suburb did what so many of us say we would: he killed the neighbor. I said "say" in the previous sentence because most of us are slightly [...]