Several days ago my daughter ate steamed broccoli. I’m so proud of this accomplishment, it may get added to my resume.
Are you wondering how I did it? Here are the tricks:
1.) I introduced it when she was at her very hungriest (less likely to turn up her nose).
2.) I smothered it — and I [...]
My 5-year-old daughter Rada had a playdate with her new best friend Ryan yesterday. Ryan is slightly younger, gracious enough to be bossed around, and he has a serious train collection which includes Trevor, Toby, James, several Thomases, and a Skarloey.
When the invitable moment of departure came, Rada protested bitterly: “I don’t want to go.”
I said, “If [...]
Seen on an online community, from someone’s grandmother:
The 5 Rules of Life
1. Eat 3 times a day.2. Always be proud of who you are.3. No matter were you live, all our love is with you all the time.4. Study is the key to a better life.5. Once a month go into nature and cry [...]
Tomorrow morning I’ll get up and eat breakfast with my daughter. We’ll both brush our teeth, put on our workday clothes, and head out the door. I’ll drop her off at school at the normal time and wish her a fabulous day, and then I’ll turn around …. and head ….in the opposite direction of work. [...]
Photos from the July vacation at Seneca Lake.
My daughter was in a state, sobbing. Apparently she was ‘not ready’ to brush her teeth and she did not want to wear any clothes to daycare. None. When I tried to reason with her she emphatically asserted that none of the kids at daycare wore clothes…
This happened 5 minutes before the moment when I really [...]