My son Damien, I mean Devin, told me something today that was, well, I don't know what it was. He was in the backseat of the car when he said "Daddy, you're a bad father. I'm not talking to you anymore, I'm only talking to mommy." I asked (a bit shocked and trying to hide it)  "why [...]
"Daddy, I want to smack you in the face." He wasn't smiling. "You want to what?" "Smack you in the face." Still no smile. "You do?" "Yes." "Then do it. Go ahead and try it. But I don't think you really want to smack me in the face because that's not a nice thing to [...]
Yes, my boy strikes again. I wrote a post a month or so ago where I told the story of how my budding fiction writer likes to, well, tell stories. He's at it again. A few days ago I found out that my son has started another rumor about me. This time, after telling all his teachers, [...]
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 [...]
A couple posts ago I said that I do not curse around my son. I wasn't lying. That's my disclaimer before I continue. A couple of days ago my mother told me about a little rumor that was buzzing around my son's preschool/daycare involving me (my mother is the head teacher in the infant "class" so she knows all [...]
My son doesn't do stand up comedy, but he does use much of the same language made popular by the late great Richard Pryor in his heyday. He usually gets crazy when he's sleepy and all of his defenses are down, however on occasion he'll drop the F-bomb just to piss his parents off. Most [...]
