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Good News, Everybody, We Are Raising a Future Polka Star (via On Parenting at...
. On Parenting at the Washington Post — Good news, everybody: We are the proud new owners of a baritone horn, a band instrument that’s big and brassy, and apparently not a tuba. We’ve been renting it...
View ArticleWhy Your Children Can’t Stop Watching Other Obnoxious Children Play Video...
. On Parenting at the Washington Post — When I was 12 or 13, I busied myself with a range of pursuits, from the dumb to the very dumb to the hugely and galactically dumb. Every month, I purchased a new...
View ArticleHow to Properly Decode Your Child’s Parent-Teacher Conference (via The Loop /...
. The Loop / Golf Digest — It’s fall! Which means the football team you’ve loved since age 8 is being used as ugly political currency, your preferred cereal brands are all issuing pumpkin-themed...
View ArticleWhy I Am Happily Plunging My Family Into Poverty Because of Honeycrisp Apples...
. Fatherly – I don’t have a large house, a Trunk Club membership, or student loans, but my children only eat Honeycrisp apples so it’s all sort of a wash. Honeycrisp apples are the fresh, plump...
View ArticleSnow Days are the Awful Worst and I Hate Them a Lot (via On Parenting at the...
. On Parenting at the Washington Post — Not to sound like one of those tiresome “everything was better about X when I was a kid” people, but when I was a kid, everything was better about snow days. The...
View ArticleThe Eighth-Grade Karaoke Party: A Horror Story, Obviously (via Fatherly)
. Fatherly — If there’s a more potentially socially-ruinous situation than Eighth-Grade Karaoke Night at the Middle School Cafeteria, I simply do not know of it. The phrase alone has caused visible...
View ArticleHelp! My Son Doesn’t Give a Damn About Social Media! (via On Parenting at the...
. On Parenting at the Washington Post — My son, now halfway through his eighth-grade year, does not appear to have the slightest whiff of a care about social media, and until about two weeks ago I did...
View ArticleWhy Are Summers So Short Now? (via On Parenting from the Washington Post)
. On Parenting from the Washington Post — Are summer breaks shorter these days? Or have they always been this short? Is my memory of summer — days that ramble and roll with no particular end in sight...
View ArticleWhat Are My Children Doing Atop That Large Mountain Over There (via On...
. Washington Post — Here’s a neat travel tip about Yosemite National Park: It contains a multitude of tall mountains. Its ribbon-thin two-lane roads wind around tall mountains, climb tall mountains and...
View ArticleShould You Let Your Kids Win at Board Games? (If You Can?) (via On Parenting...
. On Parenting at the Washington Post — Should you let your children win at board games? Actually, let me rephrase: Should you let your children win at board games if you can beat them at board games?...
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