It was a little over two years ago, when I first spoke to Pumpkin about taking her to a “snow place”.  Since that time, on numerous occassions, she used to ask me when we would be making the trip, and I would always reply that we would go soon, and that these things take a [...]

A casual conversation at breakfast left me a little stunned.  I was going through the headlines of the local daily, when the following happened… Pumpkin: Papa, do you know why girls are better than boys? Papa: Why, Pumpkin? Pumpkin: I’ll tell you… it’s because of 2 reasons… Girls go to col-lege to get know ledge [...]

An excellent post on KidsHealth got me thinking about the imminent dangers of my children getting bullied in school… Most kids have been teased by a sibling or a friend at some point. And it’s not usually harmful when done in a playful, friendly, and mutual way, and both kids find it funny. But when [...]

A good friend posted yet another writeup on the “childfree argument” and the trials and tribulations of Parenthood: An extremely well-written overview of recent studies showing how and why the fun has gone out of parenthood: All Joy and No Fun Why is this important to the childfree by choice? Well, the next time someone [...]

  Hidden Treasures Earlier today, I was helping Pumpkin get ready for school when we began talking about Disneyland.  Now, typically, when we talk of any thing that costs a lot of money, I try to bring in the message that, if we really want something and it costs a lot, we can buy it if we [...]

I recently discovered a very useful parenting resource called KidsHealth which offers tons of tips and writeups on topics concerning kids and parenting.  One such example is their fine collection of Emergency Child Care sheets that you can readily print out and use: It’s practically impossible to parent a child from infancy to adolescence without encountering [...]

A good friend recently introduced me to a fantastic site “on being child-free“.  Frankly, up until a few weeks ago, I hadn’t even heard of the phrase!  I’m a parent of two adorable children, and have a number of friends who aren’t married, and don’t have kids yet.  But, I’ve never thought of them as having [...]

Tiger is now two and a half years old, and has certainly come a long way from the “Small Beginning” he made when he began speaking around a year ago. It still takes us by surprise that, somewhere in the past one year, his vocabulary shot up so suddenly and significantly that most folks who meet [...]