My 11-yo son and all his friends have discovered rickrolling.
Posts tagged “parenthood”
The easiest way to teach siblings how to count is to give them a different number of M&Ms with dessert.
Literally any task can be made dramatically more complicated with the simple addition of a six year old narrating your every move on a karaoke microphone set at maximum volume.
Fun activity: Any child who licks their elbow can open one Christmas present early.
They are taking so many things with them:
their sewing machines and fine china,their ability to fold a newspaper
with one hand and swat a fly.They are taking their rotary telephones,
and fat televisions, and knitting needles,their cast iron frying pans, and Tupperware.
They are packing away the picnicsand perambulators, the wagons
and church socials. They are wrapped inlipstick and big band music, dressed
in recipes. Buried with them: bathtubswith feet, front porches, dogs without leashes.
These are the people who raised meand now I am left behind in
a world without paper letters,a place where the phone
has grown as eager as a weed.I am going to miss their attics,
their ordinary coffee, their chickenfried in lard. I would give anything
to be ten again, up late with themin that cottage by the river, buying
Marvin Gardens and passing go,collecting two hundred dollars.
Faith Shearin, “Telling the Bees”, 2015
Christmas Presents for Kids
Ornaments make great gifts!
#FridayFive: Baby Einstein
The best videos to calm a crying baby
Negative Space
A beautiful poem