Approved Snack

This weekend we had several soccer games with our three little ones.  They went well, we won 2 of 3 but no one was keeping score. Something that disturbs me about youth sports is the insane amount of stuff parents use to validate themselves or impress people.  What we end up with is a snack …

Creative Play

I came home yesterday and supermom shared with me all the fun, exciting and not so exciting things that happened in her day.  Then she told me the story of how Manny, our youngest, was playing with his trucks and legos and what not.  He ended up having a conversation with his imaginary friends, which …

What do we teach our kids?

Well, it has been exactly 1 month since the ice storm terrorized our community.  Like something out of a freaky winter storm natural disaster more widespread than the tornado or the hurricane that blew through last year.  This ice crippled our region for over 2 weeks.  Schools were cancelled for more than a week and …

Fathering

Some of my most painful memories from youth came flooding back to me about 5 years ago.  I was not involved in therapy or anything like that.  By nature I am very melancholic, so it must have been one very lowly day. My parents divorced when I was 12 and I became disconnected from my …

…Sometimes…

…We laugh at our kids. …We discipline our kids. …We cry with our kids. …We sacrifice for our kids. …We have it all figured out. …We have nothing figured out. …We pull our hair out so we don’t pull theirs out. …We breakdown and cry. …We get stressed. …We wish we had a ‘happy place.’ …

Little Monsters

Parental authority, what is that anyway.  Quickly approaching 1 year in the good ole US of A  and we can certainly see that parenting is more difficult than once expected.  They all have little quirks that can irritate to no end.  Sometimes we think God forgot to properly attach their ears to their little bodies. …