Kids Waking Before Sunrise Ruin My Friday Bliss
Sorry Jesus, but I hesitate to call any Friday on which my kids wake me before sunrise "good"
Kids Remind Us How Fast Time Slips Away
Me: Do you know how old l am? 5yo: A hundred? Me: *sigh* I'm 39. 5yo: Are you almost dead? Me: It's starting to feel like it.
Adult Guilt over Cartoon Binge Surpasses Parental Guilt
Pretty sure when I got up on Saturday morning and watched six straight hours of cartoons, my parents didn't feel the half the guilt I do when my kids get up and do the same thing
Kids' Logic: Pickles Aren’t Food, Even When Hungry
10yo: (carrying not-quite-empty breakfast plate into kitchen) I’m done, my tummy hurts. Me: Okay. 10yo: Can I have a pickle? Me: What? I thought your tummy hurts? 10yo: Pickles aren’t food.
Parenting ADHD: Misreading Behaviors Fuels Unnecessary Discipline
As a dad without ADHD parenting someone *with* ADHD, I cannot stress enough how frustrating and downright shameful it is when I discipline my son for what I *think* is non-ADHD behavior, only to then read an article or see...
Kids' Later Bedtimes Steal Parents' Alone Time
As my kids get older they go to bed later, which means they hang out with us longer, which means I have to stay up later and later to get any alone time, which means I’ll eventually be going to...
Graceful Parenting Meets Teenage Kitchen Catastrophes
I constantly try to remind myself that my teenager is still just a kid, doing his best to navigate a world grown adults struggle with, and that I need to give him some grace as he grows into the person...
Marriage and Kids Turn Freedom Into Constant Scheduling
Get married and have kids so instead of literally doing whatever you want all of the time you can be forced to schedule every moment of your existence around ungrateful banshees who refuse to nap and won't stop eating your...
Parenting Lessons Rarely Apply to a Second Child
Once you've figured out how to parent your first kid, it's already too late; the only way to put that knowledge into practice is to have another kid. Unfortunately, the second kid is so different from the first that none of...