Family Life

Toddler-Proof Your Computer

My three-year-old, like all other children his age, is fond of mimicking his parents. Monkey see, monkey do, right? Unfortunately, we spend a good deal of our free time on the computer, which makes him want to play with it as well, particularly when we aren’t looking. He hasn’t managed to do […]

Better Parenting through Exercise

If you’re anything like me, you want to be a good parent and you want to be healthier. Very recently, I came across a good way to help achieve these seemingly disparate goals at the same time by using a health incentive program.

It’s one of those oft-overlooked benefits of health insurance. My provider […]

Keeping an Online Family Christmas List

Like most families, mine has long used the “hint passing” method of knowing what to buy each other for Christmas. You know how it works; one of us will casually hint to another how we would like something and that information will work its way around the rest of the family until someone decides […]

Getting Married Young

When my wife and I got married, I was 20 and she was 18. According to popular opinion, we were “too young,” and I’ll be the first to admit that we were toward the lower end of most marital age statistics. The median age at first marriage nowadays is around the mid-twenties (25ish […]

Primrose School at the Park

If you’re considering Primrose School at the Park for your child care needs, you might want to think twice. My wife and I recently had a very bad experience with them. Sure, they make a great show of their quality ratings and teacher-to-child ratios, but that’s not the whole story. Here are […]

Kids Say the Darndest Things

Having a toddler can be frustrating (okay, very frustrating), but it can also be amusing as talking comes into the picture. I got to spend a lot of quality time with my son last weekend, and I’ll be darned if I didn’t almost fall over laughing at some of the things he said. […]

Making Time for Each Other

My wife and I have been dealing with a lot lately, what with new jobs and daycare and such. It’s been frustrating juggling all of our priorities. Little things like, say, the laundry have occasionally been neglected as we’ve adjusted. Despite the hectic nature of it all, we’re still quite happy with […]

Pros and Cons of Daycare

It’s been a little over a month and my wife and I are seriously revisiting our decision to put our son in daycare. It’s still a difficult choice, even with a month’s worth of reality under our belts. Do we continue as we have been, with our son in daycare and the two […]