Several days a week, my two-year-old daughter and I go to the gym together while my older kids are at school. They have a childcare room where you can leave the kids while you run on the treadmill or take a spinning class... More >>
...My childhood was miserable because my parents married and divorced numerous times, shacked up, married people with kids, made new kids, etc... More >>
...So I love you at a distance. I stay aloof and disengaged. I refuse to give you much of my time, because it won't hurt as much when you tell me you're going to leave me. I know it's coming. It always does... More >>
...In between applying for new jobs, my wife started spending more time at the daycare when she went to get our son. She started to notice the cold, uncaring, unloving institutional side of daycare... More >>
...One day, when our oldest grandson was about four years old, he was playing outside, and I heard him walking around and kind of talking to himself... More >>
..Now, I always recall your adage that you have two chances for a good parent/child relationship. I clung to that after I married and started having children... More >>
...We were in a parking garage for babies whose mothers decided that driving through Starbucks was more important than seeing their toddlers first step or hearing their first word... More >>
Several days a week, my two-year-old daughter and I go to the gym together while my older kids are at school. They have a childcare room where you can leave the kids while you run on the treadmill or take a spinning class... 
...My childhood was miserable because my parents married and divorced numerous times, shacked up, married people with kids, made new kids, etc... 
...So I love you at a distance. I stay aloof and disengaged. I refuse to give you much of my time, because it won't hurt as much when you tell me you're going to leave me. I know it's coming. It always does...