Parenthood

What Girls Want

Daughter was complaining about a male classmate, claiming that the classmate didn’t know anything about girls. I was a little surprised since my daughter hasn’t always had good social skills. I asked her, So how you know about girls? Is it from being friends with GirlT and GirlJ?” She answered: And GirlG and GirlL.” Ah, […]

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Riding in Cars with kids

Sixteen months after Daughter started her driver training, she finally has her license. This opens up a new level of freedom for me—oh! I meant for her. Driving home after a detour for ice cream, I said We’ve kept you alive for this many years. Our goal is for you to stay alive. Driving is

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Highest Praise

My kids will be attending the American Regions Mathematics League (ARML) competition and their teacher was looking for chaperones. I didn’t know if the kids would want me along or not so I asked Daughter if it would be ok with her if I chaperoned. She said Yes you can go, you’re a cool parent.”

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Sheep Projector

Driving Son and his classmate to school this morning, Son was describing what needed to be done to finish his Eagle Scout Requirements: Dad is going to get some sheet protectors.” We asked him to repeat what he said. Although he said the same thing, what we heard was: Dad is going to get some

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Parent of a Twitterer

Daughter lost her driver’s permit and was scheduled to go out on her last driver training session with the professional so we had to brave the DMV to get the permit replaced. While waiting our turn,s he revealed that she has a Twitter account. What? When did this happen? She said she was tired of

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