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There are some pockets that simply shouldn’t be picked.

My wife took the boys to their annual dentist appointment last week. Like everyone else in the world, they were nervous going in. Our four year old decided to take a new approach to the situation, however. When he was sitting in the chair and the hygienist came in, he flashed her an ear-to-ear smile. […]

On the bus back from school yesterday, my oldest saw one of his friends punching another one of his friends over and over again. He shouted at the puncher to stop, but with no success. When that didn’t work, he went up to the front of the bus and told the bus driver. She broke […]

We’ve had some friends visiting with us the past few days. Their daughter is six years old, and a very close friend of our two boys. The three of them played themselves to exhaustion each and every day, and by the end of the visit they had moved beyond silly to a surreal place that I […]

One of the ongoing challenges of my life is getting my kids to talk about their day. I ask all sorts of questions, try all sorts of different approaches. My most successful approach is to ask if they did anything fun at the playground during recess. They’re always excited to talk about the playground. The […]

A couple weeks ago, my oldest son’s elementary school had a “say no to drugs” week where everybody wore red and they had activities that were intended to raise awareness of drugs (presumably in a negative way). One of the activities involved a fire truck. Everybody filed out of their classrooms and into a big field. The fire […]

Somewhere in the past few years, my oldest son stopped dancing. I’m not exactly sure when or why, but I noticed it a few weeks back as we were watching the end of Madagascar. Madagascar, in case you haven’t seen it, ends with the song “I Like to move it, move it!”  It’s a get-off-the-couch-and-dance sort […]

I’ve been coughing a lot the last two weeks, fighting off some nasty bronchial infection. The kids, of course, have been aware of me being sick, but it hasn’t slowed them down very much. This morning, however, my oldest decided he really didn’t want to exercise (as we do every morning). As we were finishing […]

One of my responsibilities each morning is to exercise the kids. As soon as breakfast is done, we head outside to shoot baskets, run races, kick a soccer ball, or whatever other bit of physical play I can dream up. Except for this morning. This morning, the termperature outside was 41 degrees. That’s too cold […]