Via Strollerderby today I learned that 41 American children died this summer because their parents forgot them in the car on a hot day. That’s a lot of absent-minded parents! It reminded me of a story an older woman I used to work with told me about her first child. During her pregnancy, she and …
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JP Got the Chair
This past weekend I got rid of JP’s car seat and replaced it with a booster. He’s four and half, so this is a bit late, I suppose, but JP’s pretty slender (he just reached the minimum weight of 40 pounds), and I’m pretty lazy. He was more than a little excited about the new …
Things I don’t Want to Know So I Share
They don’t call it a blog for nothing, right? Here’s a video from our good friends at Dadlabs, with everything damn you need to know about babies and constipation. Why? Because you should be informed about shit, folks! Having a kid doesn’t make you enough of an expert–you need to know what everyone else knows …
Boys!
I took JP for a play date yesterday at the house of a friend who has three young boys. “Play” consisted largely of wrestling, and I don’t mean the cute, squirming, but ultimately not very violent kind of wrestling. This was the real deal, folks, with tactics that included but were by no means limited …