Category: kids
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Hunger Is The Best Spice
That first later-than-planned meal was consistently voted the most delicious of the whole weekend trip.
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Know Your Audience
On the plus side, my kids’ hearing has been fine so far. Which means they have been tuning me out with a mental rather than physical filter.
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Snack SNAFU
Another time during the summer another mom was thinking about how nice it would be if the snack parent brought popsicles! …then as the game ended she realized that she was the snack parent.
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Hold On To Your Sanity
Every baby is different, so the “newborn experience” isn’t as equally harrowing for everybody. Parents with challenging babies love hearing how great that time was for someone else.
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Especially Rejected
Always a risk that pushing your kids to be “polite” is going to backfire spectacularly.
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Never Speak of This
In retrospect having take-your-kid-to-work-day scheduled during the school year only makes it that much cooler: you also get to skip school!
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Situational Volume
They can definitely be loud, the challenge is getting it to happen at the appropriate times…
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Grocery Gladiator
My kids enjoy hanging out in live seafood departments, and I enjoy shopping while they’re entertained. It’s like a free aquarium.
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Change With The Times
He was so sure he had caught me trying to trick him by giving him a different answer.
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What A Richard
One of my cousins told me this story and also posited that “Moby Richard” would be a good name for a band.