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A Frog as Big as a Dog
Photo by Eli Greenbaum When my wife was reading to the kids tonight (from Ranger Rick, Jr.), she read, “A cane toad can be as big as a small dog.” My response, from the other room was: “Gross!” My...
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Consider the Snapping Turtles in My Road…
… how your heavenly Father provides for them! We saw a snapping turtle crawling up our street this morning. We’d seen deer and turkeys in the yard (e.g., the turkey who was trying to make a nest in...
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“Our Father,” As Prayed by My 4-Year-Old
Here is a recent recording of my four-year-old son praying the Lord’s Prayer. Gets me every time. Filed under: Family, Family Fridays, Fathering, Music, parenting Tagged: Family, Family Fridays,...
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A Prayer for the First Day of School
School is starting soon. (Groans ensue.) But new school year, new possibilities, right? Regardless of how you feel about going back, the start of a new school year is an occasion for prayer. One of the...
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I Built Them a Sandbox
I built my kids a sandbox. 5 feet by 6 feet! Here it is, before we filled it with sand. The finished product: Filed under: Family Tagged: children, Family, Family Fridays, fathering, parenting
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The Joys of a 7-Year-Old with a LEGO Store Gift Card
Grandma and Grandpa, this post is mostly for you. (Others: feel free to keep reading if you want.) My seven-year-old son received a LEGO Store gift card from his grandparents. So we went on a Saturday...
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Children’s Book Note: Almost an Animal Alphabet
Our family has read a lot of alphabet books in our day–now I’m working on letters with Kid #3 (!). We read through Almost an Animal Alphabet the other day, which she sincerely enjoyed. (The Yeti is...
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Children’s Book Review: The Little Snowplow
We need the little snowplow in our neighborhood. Last winter we saw more than 100 inches of snow pile up. The kids loved it, and we parents sort of did, but it made getting around a challenge. And...
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Four Simple Words to Abate Kids’ Complaining at Dinner
I got them from my wife, who heard them somewhere: Don’t yuck my yum. That’s it. Don’t yuck my yum. You may not like the only barely undercooked beans in this chili, or the grilled asparagus, or the...
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“Today I Flung Raisins Across the Cafeteria”
Dear son, If there are still devices that allow you to access this blog in the future, I hope you’ll forgive my posting this note without your permission. It’s from last year, but I re-discovered my...
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From the Creator of Captain Underpants: Dog Man
Our children don’t need any encouragement in the area of scatalogical humor, but here we all have been anyway, laughing through the pages of Dav Pilkey’s new Dog Man. (Pilkey of Captain Underpants...
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Deep Work… for Parents?
A working mom and productivity app publicist Tweeted, “How to do #DeepWork even when you have deep responsibilities (spoiler alert: that means kids) – by @lvanderkam.” The accompanying image was...
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