Posts Tagged “Parenting As Child Exploitation”
I don’t remember a time in my life with The Music Man. This is one of those musicals I grew up with. I admit to being more familiar with the film version which I have watched on television many times – the latest being just yesterday. While it isn’t one of my earliest television memories,…
Here is another post about our trip to Massachusetts last summer. We took the overnight plane from Seattle to Boston hoping the kids would sleep on the way there (and yes, Laura and I hoped we would get a couple of hours as well). August just didn’t sleep. I think he was too excited. Tevye did…
Here is another snapshot from our trip this past summer. We have a friend here in Seattle that is from Boston. Every year she goes back for a weeks or so and visits family. She also rents a house in Maine and spends a few days with her kids on the beach. Their vacation overlapped…
We have been putting Tevye down in his crib at night. Usually between 8:30 and 9:00 at night he falls asleep after being fed and I try to put him in his crib – most of the time he settles in, sometimes he doesn’t and we have to start the whole process over. Usually he…
I have quite a bit this week, including a few videos, so let’s jump right into it. Here is Ciárán learning to dive during swim lessons last Friday: I love how there’s so much build-up then… Here is a sort of compilation of other stuff from the same swim lesson. First up is August and…
Here’s the comment I posted on another person’s blog post: I wouldn’t be able to watch television without my DVR. My kids will watch live television (PBS Kids or Disney Channel) but I never watch television for myself without it being recorded. By the time the kids are in bed chances are I would have…
Nobody is consistently on-time for preschool drop off and pick up. How do I know this? I’m the only one there. Nobody seems to think it is important to be consistent to drop off and pick up their child on time from preschool. Every day I get there on time, a few minutes early, and…
Last week I posted briefly, a sort of snapshot – literally and figuratively, about our trip to Massachusetts last summer. Today I’m going to do the same thing. We had rented a house in Salem for 2 weeks and took the red-eye out. The kids were of course exhausted by the time we got there,…
Chances are you missed this post a while back about “how we do it” with regards to the children’s schedule. Things have changed in the three years since then, and “how we do it” has changed as well. Not only do we have another child, the other kids are older and their needs and activities…
I was walking Xavier to preschool when he said “When you pick me up and August and Dela and Ciaran we should go to the park with the stones you can read to me.” It took me a minute, but eventually I asked him “Like when we were in Salem?” “Yeah!” “That was a graveyard.”…