On October 15, 2015 the BBC ran an article that stated the astonishing figure that more people had died taking selfies than had been killed by sharks.
Our culture is kid-crazy. I remember wonder what on earth was happening to our families a few years ago when Christmas cards started excluding parents.
Let me tell you what I love about Netflix, it has a bunch of old TV series and movies that I watched as a kid and find appalling as an adult.
Nothing says summer like birds singing and bees buzzing! Why not take an afternoon to educate your Middle Schooler about one of life’s most important topic, sex.
On the last day of the school year I was driving my 7-year-old to his final day of classes and in the course of our conversation he told me that he didn’t want school to end!
Nothing is quite as unnerving as waking up from a dead sleep and seeing a kid silently standing over your bed at 3am.
Yes, yes, we all know that parenting is hard. Let’s just move on from the cliches and start talking about solutions. This year, more than any other, I have had to persevere as a dad.
Actually let’s qualify that: Every kid needs a GOOD hero! There are plenty of heroes out there that we actually don’t want our kids to follow.
It is Plato who said, “The aim of education is to teach children to have victory over pleasure.” Is that true?
I was a challenging kid. Now this needs to be qualified. I excelled at school without much trouble. I didn’t ever get into fist fights. I wasn’t the brooding adolescent mess my older brother was. I didn’t make bad friends and I didn’t go partying to try and find them.
