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The Way My Kids Are Eating Snacks at Home, I'm Starting to Wonder If They Were Starving at School
I have a curiosity that I’ve been pondering since schools shuttered and our kids have been home around the clock: were my kids starving at school? I think my parents will probably feel me on this one right here. If you are a parent and find yourself so compelled to throw your hands in the…
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I'm Glad You're Going to Write the Great American Novel While We're All Shut-In but I Have Little Kids
It feels like months ago when word started coming down that the coronavirus might shut down our whole lives for weeks, maybe even months. Turns out it was really, like, last week when the “stay your ass at home” hammer became a real thing. Of course, as soon as that happened, the charge to “use…
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Thanks to My Kids, I Hope to Never Hear ‘Who Let The Dogs Out’ Again. I’ll Probably Listen to It Again This Afternoon
We’ve been down this old town road before. A few months ago, my wife and I took my two boys to Monster Jam, the traveling monster truck competition and demonstration show during its Washington, D.C. stop. One of the trucks, Monster Mutt, comes out to Baha Men’s 2000, Grammy-award winning (!!!!!) cover, “Who Let The…
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If You Piss Off My Youngest Kid, the Way His Petty Is Set Up, You Are Absolutely Not Coming to His Birthday Party
You know, as I watch my kids grow, I’ve come to the realization that, in life, the 3-5 age range is really the sweet spot. For kids, it’s the age before they are required to know better and thus do better so they can pretty much say anything they want (short of curse words around…