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 anything catastrophic yet, [...]
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 offers [...]
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 to [...]
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 for women [...]
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 a few highlights [...]
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. It’s really [...]
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 one another. That’s [...]
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 of us [...]
Our recent life changes haven’t come without their due amount of frustration. I’m working, my wife’s working, and our son is in daycare for the first time in his life. Naturally, there was a lot of adjusting to do for all of us. Probably the worst of it, however, was the cold my son brought [...]
Well, I watched the news the other night and saw that there was a good chance of snow the following day. I LOVE snow! I thought it would be a great idea to take Izzy out in it in the morning, because the temperature would go up and melt the snow by the next day. [...]