The Parenthood Hymn
There was a game we used to play We would hit the town on Friday night And stay in bed until Sunday We used to be so free We were living for the love we had and Living not for reality It was just my imagination (Just My Imagination, Bury The Hatchet – [...]
Clichés and growth spurts.
As clichéd as this may sound, it is really astounding how fast kids grow up. Not height wise, mind you, although that is just as incredible, but how Mini Me they become. They pick up on different tones of voice, they can ask for things, they ask about things, they give you attitude, they give [...]
“He’s a regular…”
That’s what the kind lady said to me as she walked around the bakery counter and recognized my son sitting in the stroller. She handed him a mini vanilla (or banilla as my son says) cupcake and smiled as he devoured the icing. Luckily he has been less of a regular these days since he [...]
WTF are you looking at?!
So my son is having a full-blown tantrum, what exactly is your problem? I am talking to you old lady. The one shaking her head with that “Oh dear!” look on her face. This is what kids do. Do you think I am enjoying myself? Picking up boxes of cereal off the supermarket floor, or [...]
Summer Sanctuaries
With the sweltering heat upon us, the weekends are spent hunting for cool spots (cool as in not hot, but not hot as in uncool rather… oh never mind). This past weekend we had settled under one of our favorite trees in the park for a picnic and some games and within minutes we had [...]
Dude. Really?! The lifeguard?!
Why does my kid listen to the old lady in the elevator and completely ignores me? That’s more of a rhetorical question in parenthood, but one that I am currently asking often – too often in fact. It’s not so much the ignoring me part because I have learned very quickly that it comes with [...]
What’s that this one?!
The phrase du jour at my house and unfortunately it has been for the last month. I do try to explain to my son that curiosity killed the cat, but to no avail. I know: How unfair of me! Here is my sweet sponge of a child soaking up his surroundings and thirsty for knowledge [...]
The Terrible Threes
I’ve been warned that it would be different. Not necessarily worse, just different. As my son turns three years old the rebellious moments are probably less frequent, but more intense. The tantrums that used to be scattered throughout the day in small burst are now concentrated once or twice during the day, but seem to [...]
Kids say the darnedest things.
This is not the first or last time that I will breach this topic because it fascinates me. Kids really do say the darnedest things and it is not what they say so much as the expressions that gain popularity with each generation. The expressions seem to come from various sources, but all of them [...]
When in Vienna… (Part II of Series)
Vienna is a breath of fresh air for parents – at least the jaded New York kind. Granted I only visited so I cannot speak as intelligently as a local would about the city. I can say that compared to New York and Rome (cities that I know like the back of my hand and [...]
My More Dashing Side
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