SuburbanDaddy

When it comes to Thing 3 it’s best not to assume anything. Don’t assume all is well in the next room just because it is quiet. Don’t assume he won’t run away from you at the mall.
And, apparently, I shouldn’t assume the shoes I put on him in the morning are the same [...]

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Two year olds can get into a lot of trouble. Thing 3 certainly gets into his share. Breaking, climbing, running off, throwing, hitting, screaming are all part of the daily program. But now I’ve seen how this trouble can cross over into a parent’s work life.
This week Thing 3 found my work [...]

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We are in the middle of probably the biggest snowstorm I’ve ever seen. Snow was coming down last night at a rate of 3-4 inches per hour. We let the kids stay up late last night because we aren’t going anywhere for a long time, and hoped maybe they would sleep late.
Shortly after [...]

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We are 3 weeks into the great room sharing experiment. I guess it’s not quite an experiment because we have no plan B if it doesn’t work out. But so far the results have been pretty good. No major fights or territorial conflicts, which I was expecting. Interestingly, there have been [...]

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I encourage my kids to ask questions. I make a point to stop what I’m doing to give them explanations they can understand.
“Where does snow come from”, “How do airplanes fly?”, “How does Santa go to every house in one night”, “How many points do you get for a touchdown”.
These are very important questions [...]

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There are not a lot of options for keeping three active boys occupied in the winter when it’s 14 degrees with the wind chill. So I made the difficult choice to take all three on my own to the rec center pool.
It is certainly no small undertaking to get all of them [...]

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Preschools everywhere have an annual Halloween parade. Kids dress up and parents, family, and friends watch as the kids parade around the parking lot.
Our preschool has infants through kindergarten, with two or three classrooms for each age group. There were easily 150 kids in the Halloween parade.
As we watched the kids [...]

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A guy I know, who is in “the business”, and performs as a stand-up comedian, once told me that when a joke takes a long time to get to the punchline, when it starts as a seemingly unrelated story but at the end reveals the connection, it’s referred to as “taking the long way home”. [...]

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