Despite our best efforts to eradicate those tendencies toward pickiness our children seem to manifest from time to time, sometimes it’s just plain HARD to get them to eat their food! Although as they get older they do get better at this, our four year-old, Hannah, is especially challenging when she encounters something she just doesn’t want to eat. So, eating dinner the other night, it was no surprise when we had to coax, prod, beg, and threaten her with a lifetime of hanging by her toenails … [Read more...]
Why We Prep
If you’ve seen the show Doomsday Preppers you know what I’m talking about – that ‘what a dipstick’ moment at the end of every show where the narrator, after pretending to treat them seriously by having the ‘experts’ rate their preps, then proceeds to blithely state just how remote the possibility is that whatever disaster scenario the poor misguided sap was prepping for will ever happen. Now, maybe it’s a good thing to let Granny know that aliens probably aren’t going to take over the world, at … [Read more...]
Moments that take my breath away
Being the parents of four small children, we often get advice from unexpected places. Sometimes that advice is welcome, other times not so much, but we (usually…) appreciate the sentiment nonetheless. Perhaps the most common word of advice we hear, always from parents who are older than us, is to cherish the moment, because it won’t last forever. Now I can’t speak for my more sentimental wife, but I will admit that when people said that to me in the early days of our parenthood I would just … [Read more...]
What we let our children watch on TV, and what we don’t!
Like it or not, for better or for worse, these days television plays a role in the upbringing of most American kids. How much of a role that is, and whether it’s a positive or negative one, is up to parents. While we certainly understand the motivations of those parents who choose to do without TV entirely, we haven’t made that choice for our family, for a variety of reasons. For one, we feel that, just like guns and the internet, television is something that can be used for good AND for evil. … [Read more...]
Five products that changed our family’s life for the better
Some inventions change the world – electricity, the internet, indoor plumbing. Others, well, might not be quite as earth-shattering as airplanes, flat-screen TVs and smart-phones. They fly under the radar, unbeknownst to most people, but they have the potential to change the lives of those willing think outside the box and give them a try. As a family, we like to pride ourselves on being willing to try almost anything (within reason, of course… no crack cocaine for us thank you!), so when we … [Read more...]
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