We parents are always trying to give our kids cool experiences. We take them to events and places that we think are awesome and then sit back and wonder why they are complaining about all of the fun that they are supposed to be having. I mean, we know what is cool, right? We are […]
Category Archives: Children
Lies I Tell My Children
Just a minute. You don’t want to get wet. I’m not going to tell you again. You won’t like that. We don’t say that word in this house. I don’t care what the other kids are doing. Five more minutes. You don’t want to break your sister’s toys. I don’t know where your whistle is. […]
All We Do Is Watch This Video Now
Sorry, other things we were supposed to be doing. Goodbye, playing outside. So long, reading, coloring, and toys. Forget about it, television and video games. Dinner? I don’t think so. Friends? Family? Things of the past. We just don’t have time for that anymore. We have discovered the fox video. It has taken a very […]
Disney Infinity: 49% Marketing Ploy, 51% Fun
From the moment we saw the video online we have been saving our allowance in anticipation of the release of Disney Infinity. For anyone that has not been at my house for the past few weeks, and thus may not know what Disney Infinity is, I will explain it to you. Disney Infinity is a […]
Arbortrek Canopy Zipline Tour
In case you somehow missed it, last Friday was my 10th wedding anniversary. Yes, yes, please hold your applause to the end. As I was informed by a friend involved in a 49 year marriage (and counting), we are still newlyweds. But still, a decade of loooooove seems like it deserves some celebration, so we […]
Children’s Television Through the Eyes of the Parents: Part 2
As I pointed out a couple of months ago, children’s television can sometimes be excruciating for parents to sit through. Yes, there is the odd diamond in the rough out there, but so many shows are so pandering, so ridiculous, and just so, so…bad, that one has to wonder who is out there thinking this […]
Random Thoughts From an ADDled Mind
1) You can tell how much I have listened to a song by how well I can sing the instrumental break. 2) People who are clamoring for a “dislike” button on Facebook are greatly overestimating how much people enjoy everything they themselves are posting. 3) Causing the ten cars behind you to slam on their […]
I Just Gave a Time-Out to a Camel Puppet
So it’s come to this. All of my decisions and life experiences, which I thought were involved in making me into a rational and capable human being, have led me to this moment in time. I just gave a time-out to a camel puppet. To be fair, the camel puppet was acting like a jerk. […]
What My Children Thought of the Picture I Drew of Them
Lately I have been playing around with the look and the feel of this blog. I have been trying new things. I changed my logo (if one can call it that), and I started making graphics and posting them on the Tenor Dad Facebook page, mostly because it was fun and that’s why I do […]
When You Have Kids, It’s Always a Bad Time
Yesterday, I needed to ask my neighbor something. But I didn’t. I had a busy day. I was out and about. I wasn’t thinking of it at any of the convenient times. And then, around 8 pm, I was out walking past her apartment and I saw her in the yard doing some sort of […]