“Are we ready to go home?” I asked Tracey. We’d taken the kids to a park where they can ride their scooters and bikes.
“No, not yet,” she said. “They’re having so much fun.”
“So we’re going to wait until someone hurts themselves then?”
In the world of helicopter parenting, we’re the ones they’ve grounded due to poor maintenance.
Having kids is like being a contestant on a game show & having to pick between doors 1, 2 or 3.
You don’t know what you’re going to end up with – it could be the car, it could be the encyclopedias – but you just know by the end of the episode you’re going to have a great story to tell your friends.
“Do you have that book your cousin wrote, the tape dispenser or my silk dressing gown?” Grandma asked me.
The older she gets the more excellent her hiding spots are for her treasures. One day I fully expect she’ll lose her house.
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Tracey walked out of the bathroom, her and her clothes drenched from head to toe.
“Don’t tell me,” I said. “You forgot to undress before your shower?”
It’s been my experience an important part of my parenting duties involves lying to my children.
“That drawing looks great. What is it again? An elephant in a tree. Brilliant stuff.”
But now comes the sweetest lie of all…
Our neighbour’s kids are always demanding she shows them where they came out of her tummy. She shows them because she had C-sections.
Thankfully our kids don’t ask Tracey because we didn’t.
Like me, my friend Jane also lived a while at Surfers Paradise on the Gold Coast.
Unlike me, she actually went in the surf when she went to the beach.
Unlike me, she also caused a revolution in skin safe awareness. Well, kinda….
A friend of mine arrived at work frazzled because they realized their dog was missing this morning. “I don’t even like the bloody dog,…
Dealing with bullies is hard. Having your kids bullied is heartbreaking. I wasn’t especially good at coping with it when I was at school but as a dad I do have some advice for my guys. What’s a dad to do?
I did some thorough research into the origins of circumcision because I wanted to know how it ever became an option some bloke with a scalpel needs to ask. So on the back of that, here’s what Wikipedia had to say about it.
There is a direct correlation between fuel bills and hearing aids. It’s all a little bit MacGyver without the clever bits with string.
It’s so easy to become distracted in a house which has five young kids and a computer.
If Miss5 can’t see you then I’m afraid the diagnosis isn’t very good.
A broken leg, the flood, the vomits progressively going through the kids and back to school have all synced together to give us an exhausting week. But I could have handled that.What has undone us is our littlest miss. She had her first birthday on Tuesday (oh yes, add that to the mix as well) and has decided sleeping at night is now optional. Again, this wouldn’t have been so bad except her cot is in our room.
