C and I are continuing to have discussions over who is faster. Now that we’ve put the religious issues aside, I’ve been having a lot of fun with it. For example, last week C was telling me how fast he was (for the umpteenth time), when I decided I needed to start asserting myself a […]

Over the past several months, C and I have been having fairly regular conversations regarding super heroes. He’s primarily interested in Superman and Spiderman, with occasional questions about Batman. Unfortunately, there aren’t any appropriate superhero cartoons or movies these days, so he only knows of these heroes through talking with other people. This has made […]

The other day I discovered C in his bedroom, poking his belly. When I walked in, he looked up at me and asked “is my belly soft?” “Hmm…” I said, walking closer. “I’m not sure. What does it feel like? Does it feel like jelly?” I gave him a quick little poke. He giggled. “No […]

We visited Stone Mountain during our last vacation. One of the things they have there is a recreation of an Antebellum Plantation & Farmyard. We visited it, of course, and discovered an old one-room wooden schoolhouse. It had a teacher’s lecturn on one end facing rows of chairs. Up next to where the teacher stood […]

I think that C may be catching on to my disapproval of him wearing dresses when he and his friends play dress up. The other day, when I went to pick him up from his friend’s house, he was once again wearing a princess outfit. As soon as he saw me, however, he started to […]

Continuing my week of scary tales, this one takes us back to the bathroom. Yes, the bathroom. There’s nothing scarier than the bathroom. You may remember that I lost an argument with my wife regarding teaching C to stand up in the bathroom. Well, I’m still paying for it. The other day found me once […]

What could be more frightening to a 4 year old than being lost underground in complete darkness?

As I may have mentioned before, we do a lot of singing with the kids. Part of the reason for this is J’s camp background. Her years as a camp director left her with quite a collection of camp songs. Some of these songs, strangely enough, are converted spirituals. So it was that I found […]

The only big “fear” that the kids really have is fireworks. They’re generally okay with a lot of traditional scary things – dark, spiders, snakes, lightning, etc. Fireworks, however, set them to screaming in fear. From a parent’s point of view, this is actually not too bad. I mean, fireworks are fairly easy to avoid. The […]

C is one of those kids that likes to be active. Sightseeing is fine, as far as he’s concerned, as long as it is done at the same time that you’re doing something else – preferably something involving running, jumping, singing or dancing. So, on this past vacation when we rode on the riverboat in […]