grin and bare it
A blog by Matthew Dicks
This parenting stuff is easy
My daughter is now two years and two months old. I have yet to install a car seat in my car, nor have we ever moved the car seat from my wife’s car to mine.…
Read MoreUndies in the mail
I’ve been working on a blog post dealing with productivity and efficiency for the past several days, but it has grown so long that it might make a better book. Sort of a side project.…
Read MoreExclamation points say so much about a person
Cut out all those exclamation points. An exclamation point is like laughing at your own jokes. —F. Scott Fitzgerald This is a hard lesson to teach to ten-year old writers, who seem to want to…
Read MoreBroken baby
I was playing with my daughter on Sunday, and I think I broke her. While flying her around the kitchen, she landed funny on her leg and began crying. While she didn’t cry for very…
Read MoreMy wife will just about anything to expand my daughter’s palate
For a man who despises broccoli, this whole incident was downright frightening. Cooler heads finally prevailed:
Read MoreHer first haircut will be a doozy
This page from Dr. Seuss’s ABC Amazing Alphabet Book scared the hell out of my daughter. She stared at the baby in the barber’s chair, with the enormous pair of scissors suspended over his head,…
Read MoreGucci what?
My brother-in-law owned this pair of Gucci sneakers, which, as far as I can tell, retail for about $500. I was hoping to tease him about the sneakers for the next eighteen months or so,…
Read MoreShould decisions made twenty years ago impact employment today? I’m undecided.
I’m torn. I want to support this teacher and her right to teach. I believe in giving people a second chance. I believe that decisions made twenty years ago rarely reflect the people we are…
Read MoreAnti-dragon sentiment has dissipated considerably
Either my daughter’s opinion of dragons have changed since I last posted about them or what I thought was a threatening ring of little people around the dragon was actually some type of communal hug. …
Read MoreOur mathematical genius
How many two year olds do you know who request an abacus?
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