Posts Tagged “DadBloggers”
August, age 10, to Ciárán, age 6: “This is a cool book. I got it back when I was your age.” Apparently “back in the day” isn’t too long ago when you’re still in elementary school.
I will admit to not liking “Caillou” when I first watched it. For years I loathed the little kid. I found him whiny and irritating. Then I realized something. He’s just like every other 4 year old. Why do we as parents find Caillou so irritating? Because his behavior is ridiculously accurate. Not only that,…
I woke up early today… no, I was woken up early today. No extraordinarily early, but definitely early enough to be disorienting. Part of what was so disorienting was not the hour I was woken, but also the fact I was in the middle of a dream. A rather bizarre dream at that. At this…
Finding periodicals for your kids to be interested in can be a challenge. Sure there are comics, but when it comes to more advanced reading there aren’t as many as one might think. My 10 year old son looks forward to each issue of Boys Life and my 8 year old daughter has Discovery Girls and Sparkle World coming…
NOTE: This post is NOT sponsored. I just happen to really like this place and had some pictures looking for a reason to be used. It is important to me the kids learn to swim. Even if we lived in a land-locked state, say… South Dakota or West Virginia my stance would be the same….
Alright, so that title may be misleading, but there isn’t a way to encapsulate what I want to say. Why aren’t more dad bloggers participating in NaBloPoMo? Heck, many of the ones I’ve talked with recently didn’t know about it. Some have heard of NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month – basically writing a book) but…
As I begin typing this out it is 5:20 in the morning. I have been awake for an hour. We “stayed up” until about 10 last night, turned the clocks back an hour, then went to bed. I sure was tired and looking forward to getting some sleep. Normally I wake up a couple of…
Yesterday was Halloween, so of course there will be costume pictures. First, however, I wanted to share this. We don’t get a lot of fallen leaves in our neighborhood, but the block to and from school does for about a week. The kids all love going through them. Here’s Xavier on his way home from…
School pictures came back. For Xavier it was his first school picture. It’s not even a great picture, to be honest, but it really does capture him at this moment in time. As I picked him up from preschool one of his teachers was handing out the packets to parents. He came out and saw…