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Were you paying attention in those psychology classes? Do you remember the experiments where a rat was trained to press a lever to get food? It’s amazing how relevant experiments on rats can be to parenting. In pursuing my psychology degree, I took a lab where I had to perform that experiment myself. I had a rat of my own, which I named – very appropriately, I thought – Rat (hey, if it’s good enough . . . → Read More: Grilled cheese and the science of successive approximation Those who know me may assume my own daughter can also do this. She can’t. Yet. [kml_flashembed movie="http://www.youtube.com/v/EBM854BTGL0" width="425" height="350" wmode="transparent" /] Smart kid. What follows is a guest post from my wife, who has had a bit of a difficult week so far. I have come upstairs to … get AWAY from our 2 and 3 year-olds. They’re eating lunch. Or that’s what they’re supposed to be doing. They’ve been sick for days now. It seems like a very long time. I’ve been up with one or both every night for 4 nights now. And I’m tired. And . . . → Read More: It’s Not Fair! Just a couple of examples of life with Little Mommy… Sometimes I don’t give my kids enough credit Recently Little Mommy and I were putting together a puzzle on the living room floor as bedtime approached. Mom was out of the house. Little Mommy is pretty good at puzzles for a 3-year old, but she’s not what I would consider a fast worker. I was beginning to wonder if we’d get finished by the time . . . → Read More: Little Mommy moments Hero – it’s a nice boy notion that the real world’s gonna destroy. – Steve Taylor In the last couple of days I’ve seen two blog entries from totally unrelated blogs about “heroes”. Not the TV show, actual heroes. Our personal heroes. There’s another blog that brings up heroes too, but in a completely different way. The first two blogs are beingfrugal.net and cpyu.org (you may have to scroll to the 3/4/2008 entry). The . . . → Read More: Heroes? The Players: Dad – in the upstairs office, working Mom – …indisposed 3-year old, aka “Little Mommy” – playing in playroom 2-year old, aka “Stinky” – playing in playroom So I’m sitting in my office, writing an email, the entire house quiet, when I hear Mom enter the playroom downstairs and stop short. Then an exclamation: “OH! What are you doing?” When that was repeated for the third time with the same mix of shock, . . . → Read More: Little Mommy drops the… um… ball In the spirit of ParentHacks, here’s a trick we’ve used to get our kids to do many things they otherwise wouldn’t. We came up with it in the car on a long trip when the whining reached an all-time high. My wife, in hidden frustration, looked back and said, “Whatever you do, no smiling!” to our grouchy kids. Of course, they immediately smiled. Then it became a game: “Whatever you do, no laughing!” “Whatever you . . . → Read More: Whatever you do… finslippy: Give me your worst parenting stories [Found through ParentHacks] Holy cow, this is the funniest and saddest thing I have read or seen in the last year. It’s a good thing I’m alone, because the howling laughter at times would have freaked everyone out. I couldn’t see the screen because of the tears from laughing so hard at times. The blogger asks for the worst parenting stories to help her get over screaming at . . . → Read More: Bad parenting confessions FOR WHAT IT’S WORTH: Famous Last Words I’ve seen this referenced many times since it was first released, but I never watched it until recently, figuring it would be depressing (plus I just didn’t have the time). I was wrong. Ignoring the circumstance for a moment, this is an incredibly good example of how to give a lecture – a format I usually don’t support. Randy Pausch was apparently a great teacher. Just looking at . . . → Read More: How to leave a lasting legacy Silence. That’s all I was after. Just make the screaming stop (and prevent me from adding to it) – nothing else mattered. While the challenge presented by my youngest child today may not be unusual for some families (unfortunately), for us this is like having a completely different child that we’ve never met before suddenly show up and take the place of a usually extremely sweet and relatively easy-going child. What follows is . . . → Read More: The Silence of the Lamb |
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