When you look at your average everyday adult human person, it is sometimes very hard to detect whether all of their faults were caused by bad parenting, or by their own internal weaknesses and character flaws. Why is that guy so annoying? How come that one lady was so mean that one time? What is […]
Category Archives: Bad Parenting
One Sick, One Not
Perhaps one of the more difficult parenting tasks I have undertaken is the care of one sick child when the other one is feeling fine. You parents with only one child do not have to deal with this, which is why you are big jerks. Nevertheless, I will try to explain to you what you […]
Locked Out
It started, as so many things do, very gradually. At first it was just a bit of a sticky lock. After a while, it became difficult to get the deadbolt on the front door to open all the way. A tiny bit of it would stick out, even after it had been unlocked. As time […]
Is Tenor Dad an Unethical Endeavor?
According to Scientific American, blogging is good for your health. Huzzah! I should be extra healthy then, because I do it all the time! After reading that article I felt a renewed sense of confidence that I was doing a good thing with Tenor Dad, and not totally wasting my time. But then I read […]
A Toddler’s New Year in the Garden of Earthly Delights
New Year’s Eve is kind of a grown up holiday. You stay up really late, generally people are drinking and/or kissing, and the whole thing deals with the marking of time, which kids have very little concept of anyway. This is why having kids totally messes up New Year’s. Kids make Christmas better, and even […]
Christmas Hangover
Man, that was a lot of Christmas! There is only so much joy and frivolity that one can take, and I am wiped out! The 26th should be a national holiday as well: a day of recovery. See, New Year’s Day is nice, because everyone does their celebrating the night before, and then you get […]
Urine Rationing
We had a great day in the potty training department yesterday. No, not all of everything went into the potty, but Edward was able to tell me each time he needed a diaper change, and even when he might have been about to need a diaper change. This is an important step, but even more […]
Shut Up, Grammy!
While I was away in New York auditioning last week, my two-year-old son Edward was staying with Toy Grammy. He likes to go to Toy Grammy’s house, generally because it contains lots of toys. I often drop him off right at the train table, and pick him up in the same spot. Sometimes I wonder […]
A Strict Candy Diet
When I was growing up, I viewed candy as a necessity. There must always be candy! So, being a little OCD anyway, I rationed my candy very carefully. Each holiday provided me with just enough candy to last through till the next one. It all started on Halloween of course (The Motherlode!), which gave me […]
Ironic “Weird Al”-Related Injuries
If you are looking for a good starter song for trying to indoctrinate your young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic (and come on, who isn’t trying to indoctrinate young children into the cult of “Weird Al” Yankovic), then you can’t do much better than his cover version of “George of the Jungle,” […]