Well, it’s Wednesday again. That means that Ruby has climbing after school. She has so enjoyed the climbing walls at the Renaissance Festival, and she has scaled every tree on our property, so we thought she would like to take a climbing course this year. And we were right. She loves it. Although I hope […]
Category Archives: Edward
What if No Always Meant No, Right From Day One?
No means no, yes? This is what we are attempting to impress upon our young men and women as they enter the world of adult relationships and interactions. But no, in fact, doesn’t always mean no. Sometimes no means yes, and this is the argument that many have used over the years to justify their […]
How Do We Learn to Shower?
My wife decided to clean the shower curtain the other day, which included tossing out the old liner and laundering the opaque, flowered, outer curtain with the rest of the laundry. Since she was in charge of the lining, the shiny new clear plastic curtain was up immediately. Since I am in charge of the […]
The Nuances of Preschool Communication, or “Ha ha! That Slow Guy Fell Down!”
Sometimes it is hard to communicate with 4-year-olds. They do not know as many things as adults, and specifically their word choices are not as vast as the average person. There is a lot of nuance that one must pay attention to as one listens to, and tries to figure out, what these young citizens […]
The Difference Between Karma, Irony, and Murphy’s Law
Today I am here to use a real life example to demonstrate the elusive difference between the oft-confused karma, irony, and Murphy’s Law. Because yesterday morning I had an unhealthy dose of all three. To begin with, Edward (who always gets up at the crack of the middle of the night) decided to sleep in. […]
Seeing Them With New Eyes
We get used to the people we live with. Everyone changes so gradually that it can be hard to notice the little differences, until we hit a sudden moment of clarity in which we are able to view these familiar humans with new eyes. This has happened to me many times. I recall the moment […]
How the Boy Tricked Me Into Giving Him Chocolate For Breakfast
Just to give you a bit of backstory, exotic Aunt Oafanie arrived last evening bearing gifts of chocolate, which were partially consumed by the children immediately. And that’s all you really need to know, for the scene is now set, as morning breaks into the Tenor Dad household. Tenor Mom has just left to take […]
Bobbing For Toilet Apples
“Daddy!” “What?” That ought to do the trick. Saying “what” should always do the trick. “DADdy!” “WHat?! I’m downstairs! What do you need?” This had better not be something like his sock is on backwards or something. Daddy does not want to spend the rest of the day running up and down the stairs, even […]
A Ball of Chaos Walks Into a Taekwan-Do Academy
If you are a regular reader of these pages then you probably already know a few things about my son. He is the type of 4-year-old who might steal a bike and disappear into a Toys R Us. He might growl and scream at you as you walk by, for no apparent reason. Listening and […]
I Know He’s Around Here Somewhere…
Things have changed. It used to be, back in the day, that the first thing Edward would run to as we entered the doors of Toys R Us would be the trains. There are always train tracks set up, and I would feel very comfortable wandering around the store doing all of his Christmas shopping […]