By Richard Black of The Unfit Father I’d always thought my daughter would be a little older before she became inquisitive about her beginnings, perhaps well into her 40s when I had just started to suffer from the onset of dementia. Unfortunately, Darcy is four, and what would be a […]
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Can You Do Life? A Diagnostic Quiz for Teachers and Parents
[nextpage title=”Page 1″ ] As a high school educator, I am intimately familiar with the ways of our future leaders and fellow citizens, and I’ve got to tell you: I’ve found that interpersonal communication skills — and doing life skills in general — are seriously lacking, not just in society […]
What’s for dinner?
I’m serious.
What Effing Day Is It?
We all know about the different cancer awareness months. We know about Grandparent’s day, Mother’s day, Father’s day, Groundhog Day, and the “traditional” holidays — the days marked on the calendars you can buy in stores. Now suddenly every day is a national something day. Since social media became such […]
How to Talk to Your Child About Death and Tragedies
From barely babbling little ones to emotionally underdeveloped teenagers, they are watching the news throw itself at our attention. They are seeing social media as we are…puked upon us with stories about people suffering or in pain. Death, disease, and tragedies don’t come with a manual. Religion can almost wholly […]
5 Bullsh*t Ways To Get Your Toddler To Sleep Longer
By Samantha Wassel of Between The Monkey Bars My boys have some sort of twisted, personal vendetta against the joy that is sleep, and I don’t know how to rid them of it. It started a few weeks ago when daylight savings time took effect, i.e. screwed parents everywhere over. […]
Coffee because…
It’s a shame, really, though even then, I’d still have my coffee.
Thank You to Awkward, Pimply-Faced Younger Me For This
As I ebb ever closer to my mid-thirties, as I find myself choosing to turn off both music and the TV in lieu of a good book, and as I find myself actually watching Lifetime movies (I’m looking at you, Unauthorized Full House Story), I am aware of one thing: […]