It’s surreal enough at the moment, but one of today’s more surreal moments was discovering that Toto’s song Rosanna was released on April 1 1982. More surreal than that was discovering that all my three daughters had never heard the song before. At all.
It was inevitable that my kids would figure out a wonderful early Father’s Day present.
Sammy Rhodes’ book This Is Awkward evokes a lot of familiar emotions as he writes about his own experiences with his father, and the impact those experiences have on his life and relationships with his own children. Our first gifts to our children are the characteristics they’ve either inherited or learned from us. And sometimes …
Though parenting young children can be the most demanding of seasons in a person’s life, it is also a time that our minds return to with an increasing fondness as the years pass. Sarah Condon writes an essay on The Work Of Love which is parenting: It is hard to recognise that you are in …
We never really did the Santa Claus thing, but we made sure everyone got lots of presents. Regardless. One mother’s struggle to observe some of the cultural expressions of Christmas without yielding to its anti-gospel narrative of performance rewards. A taste: My six-year-old asked my nine-year-old this question in the backseat of my car recently, …
A basic rule of parenting: No one wants to play with it, until someone wants to play with it; then everyone wants to play with it, but not together. To illustrate:
I heard a scrap of a conversation about the fine practice of not lying to your children yesterday. It requires a bit more finesse than this.
