Why I Hate Caillou
I am probably not alone in my parental aspiration to try and accept everything that Jack likes in life. But I hate …
Revisiting Childhood: Spider-Man
Revisiting Childhood is an ongoing feature in which I re-experience something from my childhood, break down crying in remembrance of my lost …
Revisiting Childhood: Snow Days
Revisiting Childhood will be an ongoing yet irregularly scheduled feature in which I re-experience something from my childhood, break down crying in …
Boy Talk
Jack has been building his vocabulary for a while now. That vocabulary includes the word, “Ass!”, which he learned from me, quite …
The Great Escape
We’ve known that Jack likes to climb for quite a while. Since he started moving, basically. This week, he discovered a more …
Letters to Jack: About Halloween
Jack – One of the many, many, many reasons I love Halloween is that surprises are, quite literally, around every corner. This …
My Son. My Sidekick.
Jack is using a new word. The word is pishew. The origin of pishew is superheroic, in that it is the sound that
Revisit Your Childhood FTW
For my money, one of the best things about being a Dad is being able to visit childhood. When was the last …
Doctor’s Orders: I Have to Lose My Son
I’ve never been one for doctors. In that, I don’t like going. So I didn’t, from just before college until my thirties, …
Raising a Rebel Without a Clue What to Do
Jack has hit a pair of developmental milestones at the same time. He is copying almost everything we say. He is also …
Parenting in an Age of Train Wreck
Over the past few days, there’s been this vortex of horrible. Dina Lohan was on the Today Show, defending her parenting and …
Insane in the Train
Jack is starting to really like things. Not the way adults like things. By clicking on a button so that our likes …