This blog on hold until April 2009
To my faithful readers, I want to thank you for your patience. It’s been awhile since I last posted. I am not going to be adding posts to this blog for awhile. I am beginning a new web venture that requires my full attention, well into April. I hope to be back and posting again [...]
Parents, Maybe You’re Just Not INTO Your Kids…
How INTO your kids are you?
I ask this because, over time, I have heard parents say a number of things along the lines of…
“My son LOVES video game. I HATE video games.”
“My daughter LOVES that hip-hop stuff and these nasty-mouthed rappers. I like REAL music.”
“I LOVE the outdoors–when I was a kid, I played outside all day! My son loves the [...]
Free Sample Movie Clip Discussion for Parents (Freedom Writers: A Toast to Change!)
When I posted this, I didn’t think of President Barack Obama’s theme of change or the tremendous change brought about by the work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. How fitting that this post be released (and hopefully read and used) this week!
Enjoy this FREE sample movie clip discussion for your family from my latest [...]
Knowing the Right Things to Do as a Parent, and Doing Them Are Two Different Things
I had a follow up with the dermatologist yesterday (for the first visit, see the humorous post, The “Pre-Perfect” Parent! “) Just wondering why I am 46 and still wrestling with acne. Me and the pimple pop doc are still trying to slay the blemish beast. Hence my return.
It is rosacea.
The doctor went [...]
Things Good Parents Do: Reader Favorites of 2008 (part 1)
(The Kochenburger fam relaxing at home in 2008…)
Things Good Parents Do, is a tongue-in-cheek (sometimes downright cheeky!) blog that added a little rascally wit and “wisdom” (HA!) into the parenting scene. I have enjoyed writing Things Good Parents Do, and our readership has grown–wildly of late! Though there are MANY outstanding parenting, dad, and [...]
Things Good Parents Do: Reader Favorites of 2008 (part 2)
(Jim’s fam in front of a door in Rome.)
Here are a few more fun posts I think you’ll enjoy if you’re new to Things Good Parents Do…(new material coming this weekend
Fun on Flight 1703 (The Zippy and Lippy Show or Dad Gone Wild!)
Christmastime 2007, my family and I traveled to New York [...]
Celebrities Say Do NOT Vote for Things Good Parents Do for 2008 Weblog Awards????
(DISCLAIMER 1: Okay, this post was a farce, a joke (some would say a joke gone wrong…). It was penned in the heat of “battle” for votes in the 2008 Weblog Awards. (This blog was nominated for Best Parenting Blog…whatever “Best” means
Turns out it was my most read post ever…had over 500 reads [...]
Good Parents Always Allow Their Children to Do What "Everybody" Else Does
(Alleged to be a genuine photo of EVERYBODY.)
“Mom! Why can’t I go? EVERYBODY else is going!”“Dad, you never let me do what EVERYBODY else gets to do!”“Ohmigosh, EVERYBODY is going to be there…EVERYBODY! So why can’t I go?”“I want ___________ ! EVERYBODY else has one!” The good parent would never keep their kid from doing [...]
Good Parents Prevent Their Children From Poking Their Eye Out
(Eleven-year-old Chinese schoolboy Liu Cheong had a brush with death when his friend shot him in the head with a 16-inch arrow. Source for photos and the original article: ABC News)
Like Ralphie’s mom…teacher…and even Santa Claus in the movie, A Christmas Story, the #1 thing we’ve all heard from our parents is:
“Don’t __________ (any [...]
Good Parents Tell Their Children That if They Believe in Themselves, They Can Accomplish Anything!
Sure right NOW…
…Little Susie Celine Schwartz makes the dog howl when she sings…but one day…she will fill arenas (even church people have said this–non-fibbers!), IF she just believes in herself.
…Little Ralphie Coltrane Parker’s sax playing sounds like a duck being choked to death…but one day he will play on countless people’s records, IF he just [...]