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Time flew the fastest this summer and I'm both kinda sad it's over and glad for it. Prior to this year we'd travel a little bit and...

Last week we were in Alaska again and, while it's always a good trip, it brings some challenges both physical and emotional. From MSP...

I'm sure I've said in the past how kid #1, our son, is basically my Mini-Me. It's not a reference to how he looks, it's that he generally...

The first year with a kid can be a challenge for a dad. It's hard to connect with a little baby like a mother does, we don't have the...

With our first two children, the boys, we had few problems with sleeping through the night. #1 from birth was an incredible sleeper and...

As a kid Spider-Man my favorite superhero. I liked whatever cartoons he appeared in and, as a teen, loved the Sam Raimi live action...

I often get annoyed with our eldest son, too often. There are other circumstances, to be sure, but one type of interaction has really...

Summer is over and it's the school year again. Before now that didn't mean a lot, even when #1 was in preschool four days a week that's...

I never did a follow-up for potty training boy #2 and that's warranted. Surely I don't remember everything from doing this with #1, but...

Our kids have always had friends, of one kind or another, though until recently they've mostly been through friends of my wife and I, or...

Last week we started potty training our #2 child. It was probably the longest week of my life. This is one of those parts of parenting...

Less than two years ago I wrote about my first couple weeks home alone, during the week when my wife was back at work, with two kids. I...

Our #2 child is now two years old and he's, up to this point, not been a talker. He came out of the womb sucking on two fingers on his...

I don't think we, as parents, want to have a favorite kid. Nothing good comes of that. Ideally we resist the urge and treat our offspring...

My last post bemoaned a weird stage where we were ready for a baby but she wasn't ready to join us yet. Well, to our relief, our little...

Kid #1 was born a day or two after his due date. Kid #2 was unexpectedly early, by more than a week. So with the expected arrival of kid...

The aspect of parenting I seem to be struggling with most these days is setting a good example. This isn't across the board as I, for the...

The jokes are funny because they're true. A first child gets all the attention to his/her self. First-time parents tend to be much better...

I touched on this briefly in discussing my week without a computer, but it's such a nice part of our boys at their current ages and I...

Six months ago I wrote about the joy of babies at six months old. Six months is the beginning of more interactive behavior, but a key...