A Parent's View on Entertainment and Life
Take an almost three year old and an almost five year old and toss them into a room with three (almost identical) toy houses to play with. Give them 15 seconds to judge which house they deem worthy of playing with, and they will almost assuredly choose the same house. The bigger child will try [...]
I tend to think of parenting as a never-ending science experiment. Dangle a reward over here, provide some food over there, add stimuli, remove stimuli, introduce unfamiliar companions and see if they become friend or foe. Most of the time, I feel like the assistant to the assistant, rather than the professor conducting the entire [...]
Two-year-old kids are loud. It’s in their design. They’ve spent the previous two years trying to figure out the world around them, and how to get people to do what they want. Now that they have language and a voice, they’re going to make you hear them, damnit. Four-year-old kids are loud. It’s in their [...]
This past Christmas, Em received a pink toy stroller for her dolls. The stroller was popular for about 5 minutes and then was quickly cast aside, once it was discovered that the other toys Santa brought had flashing lights and made noise. Taking the stroller for a Christmas Day spin The stroller sat, [...]
As I write this two-year-old K is sitting in time-out. Again. He’s in there a lot. A lot. Sooooo much. I’m not sure what to do to improve this. Right now he’s in there because he pushed Em over by using his foot and her face. He likes to change it up though – sometimes [...]
