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Entries from January 2007

Fun Bus

January 31st, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve written here about how I’ve been searching for an indoor gym/playground to take my kids in the winter. Well, here is a great concept. A school bus, with all the seats removed, and padded walls. Just park in the driveway and turn the kids loose. The house doesn’t get destroyed, [...]

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Parenting and Dads

January 30th, 2007 · No Comments

I’m glad to see I’m not the only Dad pissed off by Parenting Magazine’s tag line, What matters to moms. The line says it all. The content is aimed at women, and how they can trick their men into performing house chores and baby duties. In the occasional one pager Just For [...]

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Tags: rants

Daddy is a chimp

January 29th, 2007 · No Comments

My toddler at 19 months has a large vocabulary for someone his age. I know, all parents say that. But he really does know a lot of words, and is able to identify scores of animals. Except one. He dutifully goes page by page in the picture book, enthusiastically calling out [...]

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Tags: cute · stories

Search for the Ultimate Indoor Playland

January 28th, 2007 · 3 Comments

Now that the weather is cold, and I can’t take the kids outside, weekends are a constant struggle to find a way for the kids to burn off their energy. Thanks to global warming, this has been an unusually warm winter. But on days like today it’s hard to make it through the [...]

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Tags: struggles

Flying with a toddler and preschooler

January 27th, 2007 · 2 Comments

I recently experienced the joys of airplane travel with my 3 year and 19 month old boys. It’s one of those things that seems miserable at the time, but in retrospect, turns to it wasn’t that bad…, and before long, you are planning your next trip.
The trip down to Lake Worth started off well [...]

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Tags: advice · stories · travel