One of the many things I have in common with my kids, is that I love riding on trains. So, in case you don’t feel like reading the whole article below, I’ll summarize in a sentence for my American readers what most of my European readers already know: Doing long-distance trips with kids is awesome [...]
This is one piece of Scientology that I try to apply as best I can – and it’s a constantly-changing game as the kids get older – trying to preserve their own self-determinism. The quote above, from L. Ron Hubbard’s article in the Children course: “A child has a right to his self-determinism. You say [...]
Now that I’m accumulating a wealth of cute photos of my two kids, I figured I’d do a little page from 0-2 yrs old, comparing them by months. My son is pushing 11 months old, and my daughter is now a mighty Two-and-change! Click through for larger versions of the photos. Age Mackenzie Denali Newborn [...]
The entirety of this website is dedicated to showing simple, easy things that one can do to be a more effective parent, and to help you raise happy, healthy, competent children. In acting as editor for this site, I’m always trying to point at things you can do. Well, as a quick counterpoint, let’s discuss [...]
After writing earlier articles about how much I’ve been consciously trying to allow my daughter to help around the house, and to allow her to contribute – even when we’re nervous about the “help” she may provide, the strategy is obviously paying off. As you can see from the video above, even though she’s just [...]
The very same basics that are used with adults to communicate with other adults absolutely apply to babies as well, a fantastic example of such L. Ron Hubbard singles out in a December 1954 talk on communication, where he says: “Kids, kids that come around and they say — I have noticed this with parents. [...]
Yesterday, my wife was at home all day watching our kids, plus one of my 2-year-old daughter’s best friends, James – a strapping blonde male who is a full year her senior. They of course got along like peas & carrots, the two of them playing together and having a great time. When I got [...]
“DADDY! There’s FIREWORKS on MACKENZIE!” No sooner had I turned my back from her, I found out that my 22-month-old daughter had gotten the brilliant idea to utilize a marker she’d found to use her body as a canvas, and draw the picture which was most brilliant in her head at the time – fireworks. [...]
It was the first 4th of July Fireworks for both of my kids this year, as my daughter missed out on seeing them last year. We watched them from Fort Belvoir in Virginia, forgoing the nasty downtown DC traffic. My 22-month old daughter’s commentary on the fireworks? When my wife asked her about them on [...]
If a photographer is defined as one who is so good at it that people pay them for their photos, then I am not a photographer. But if a photographer is defined as one who takes a lot of pictures – well, then I qualify a bit more, seeing as I do take a lot [...]
