Isn’t it funny how one minute your kids can be really sweet, and the next you want to hang them by their feet from the rotary drier in the garden and give it a good spin? My eldest – Isaac – is 3, and in that phase of constantly pushing ...

The Terrible Twos seem to echo forever. Even though Da-da's oldest is six, he seems perpetually two, especially when his four-year-old brother is within his incalculable event horizon. However, as the world has accelerated past the world and into a wor...

Last week was Marc’s 2nd birthday. What an amazing feeling to watch my son blow out his own candles, to now hear him babble out words that sometimes I understand… weird but I’ve developed an hear for toddler-ese. I know he’s understand about 70-80% of what I’m saying these days, ...

An old post from when I was the stay-at-homer, just after Segundo was born: I think of myself as a much better parent than I actually am. In the past when I saw frustrated mothers wrenching the arms of petulant children in the aisles of grocery stores, I shook my ...

Segundo is two years old and everything that two conjures up. His vocabulary is doubling in size each week, and his coordination is building as well. With that new found ability to express what he means comes frustration that we don’t understand what he means all the time. He changes ...

Dear Mr. Dad: Our adorable little girl has turned into a difficult, rebellious teenager. She’s only 14, but she already insists on wearing make-up, and screams things like, “I hate you!” and “It’s my life so you can’t tell me what to do.”...

Lately little man has been acquiring quite the vocabulary, so much so that I have to think twice about what comes out of my mouth for fear that he will repeat it. For the longest time the only things he really said were were ‘kitty’, ‘mum’ and ’spoon’ and ...

For the thirty-six childless years of my life I’d heard the following phrase whenever a small child was being a brat: “He’s/She’s just tired.” And for thirty-six years I would think to myself “Yeah right! What a lame excuse! Your kid is just a spoiled brat and you just haven’t done ...