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 [...]
(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 [...]
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 [...]
Warning to Parents Thinking About Dressing in Cow Outfits and Chasing Children
This is a special public service message from parentconsensus:
Parents, if you planned to dress up as a cow and to scare small children, this Halloween, or even…like today, please be warned, it could get you locked in the slammer. True story. Here’s the link for the details…http://www.wlwt.com/cnn-news/17589970/detail.html
Save the children…eat more chikin! (?)
"A Dog + a Little Girl + An Automatic Car Window = Family Nightmare" Or "What You Gonna Do When Life Poops on You?"
It was an ordinary day. We had no reason to think it would spiral into a nightmare for my 8-year-old daughter, Kristin–and for our chronically shabby, ungroomed schnauzer named Frosty (Frosty’s a she by the way).
The family was packed into the Blazer, making a rare trip to Frosty’s groomer. Lined up on the backseat are [...]
Family Time or Family Crime? What’s Your Legacy?
I am a big fan of parents making sure they pass on to their children solid life skills and an honorable legacy. Good stuff.
But what about when one’s life skill and legacy is…um…crime? (And one is not very good at it–cause one is caught, convicted and sentenced?) Turns out that gets passed down too.
A recent [...]