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 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 [...]
Good Parents Raise Children to Be Winners (The Baby Expo)
My wife Karen and I ended up at a Baby Expo when my son was still very young. I don’t remember how old he was, but I do remember he was an expert crawler–sometimes a stumbling, bumbling, rambling, four-step walker. So whatever age that is–he was. (Though I am SURE it was before MOST children [...]
(MORE) Good Parents Make Their Kids "Face The Fear"!
(A standalone post, but best read AFTER Good Parents Make Their Kids Face the Fear! )
The wild beast shown above can and has sent Bryan Schultz, 36, into a panic. He is afraid of “any small, furry animal that gnaws on things.”
“Rabbits and squirrels are especially terrifying for me, but even non-rodentia, like ferrets, freak [...]
Good Parents Make Their Kids "Face The Fear"!
Peyton Pinkerton, 37, has been known to run out of malls, fairgrounds, and other places “on repeated occasions,” to flee the object of his personal phobia: clowns (Coulrophobia). Why, you ask?“I was yelled at by a birthday party clown when I was about 4 years old and have been absolutely terrified of them ever since. [...]
Talula Does the Hula and More Great Names for Children (Families in the News, #8)
(New Zealand) Some names are so weird they constitute child abuse, according to a court in New Zealand. The family court judge reached that conclusion after hearing evidence in the case of a girl named “Talula Does the Hula From Hawaii.” In a nutshell: The clueless parents were so resolute in keeping their daughter’s name [...]
Parents, If You Could, Would You Give Your Kids Up?: Families in the News, Part 5
“OMAHA, Neb. — The grandparents of nine children who were given up by their father under Nebraska’s unique safe-haven law said Thursday that they wished he would have come to them for help.”
Now this is a tricky situation because this dad who left all nine of his kids at a hospital had some seriously complicated [...]