What makes this one worse is that the little guy doesn’t even know the song. He only knows the first line, and that’s only because he heard me singing it.

After a year of working on it, I think we may finally be adding a new tradition to our family. Well, new to the kids, at any rate.

You’d think that cross country would be harder for the child that has to run the full mile instead of the half. Turns out that’s not always the case.

Any bedtime song can get the kids sleeping, but it takes a really special one to get them dancing.

This wasn’t exactly the end of my parenting rope, but it was kind of close.

The kids and I play games just about all the time. On this occasion, though, a new one was introduced, and I think I might be over my head.

It is the challenge of millions of parents across the globe: how to keep the kids quiet during church. This is a story of an attempt to move beyond that goal, to try to achieve that most lofty of goals: attentiveness.

Here’s an attention-getter that isn’t terribly subtle. Funny, but not subtle. Enjoy!

The challenge of who’s the better parent is probably not the healthiest of competitions. In fact, there’s an argument to be made that it’s downright destructive. Having said all that, I think I might have won this particular battle. Enjoy!

There’s a reason why you don’t go looking for alligators in Florida: you might find one.