The Doctor and The Dad
Writing a book is a pretty cool accomplishment. And if you’ve actually demonstrated the compassion and commitment it takes to pen 200-plus pages of somewhat sensical material on a single topic, you have every right to be proud. So tell your family and friends. Tweet it to all your followers. Go on a talk show, […]
We like to keep the parenting discussion pretty positive here on the blog. But every now and then, we feel the need to do a little ranting – about our kids’ most terrible toys, or a paper towel ad that completely misrepresents parenthood. Well today we’re adding another crappy commercial to our list of parenting […]
Valentine’s Day is almost upon us! That means love is in the air, and yet another Peanuts holiday special is airing on TV. So just like we did on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Year’s, the Doctor and the Dad sat down this week with our four-year-old daughter Sammy and her two-year-old brother Freddy to let […]
We did it over Thanksgiving. We did it at Christmas. And now we’re doing again to ring in the new year! When we sat down with our four-year-old daughter Sammy and her two-year-old brother Freddy to show them “Happy New Year, Charlie Brown” for the very first time last week, we did more than just […]
All the Peanuts holiday TV specials came out approximately forever ago. So for grownups like us who have seen them a good thirtysomething times by now, they’re not particularly new or exciting anymore. Unless you watch them with your kids, of course. When our family checked out “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” together a couple weeks ago, […]
Most of us adults have been exposed to Peanuts comic strips and cartoons since we were children. So by the time we become parents, we know exactly what to expect each time another Charlie Brown holiday special hits the air. But for our kids, it’s a whole other story. When our four-year-old daughter Sammy watched […]
This week our family hit a major milestone – our firstborn child told her first big lie. And you know what’s worse? She told it…to cover up a crime! The evidence was pretty damning. We started finding little clumps of cleanly snipped hair all over the house. In the bathroom sink. On the kitchen floor. […]