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A constant reminder

My wife and I took her 12-year-old and Sam to the home of some friends on New Years Eve. It was a nice get-together - homemade pizza, games, conversation, no alcohol. I don't think I heard one cuss-word the whole evening. What I did hear, though,...

Published Fri, Jan 01 2009 4:27 PM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, accidents, guilt, scars, two-year-olds
Will this scar heal?

A month ago I let my two-year-old boy fall, strapped in a backpack, from a stack of boxes onto a shopping cart, leaving a nasty bruise on his cheek. I wrote about it a few days later. I talked about how bad I felt but how forgiving he was. I talked about...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 1:31 PM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, fatherhood, baby backpack, plastic surgery, accidents, guilt
Perhaps believing makes magic real

[davidheadshot] We were at my stepson's football banquet, and Sam was wandering around, as Sam is wont to do. He worked the crowd, studying faces. He ran to connect the dots created by the school cafeteria's colored floor tiles. He circled the...

Published Thu, Dec 12 2008 10:59 AM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, magic, Christmas, Santa, commercialism
Yes, Dear, I did drop the baby

My personal meat thermometer popped after a half-lap of the store. I was in a heavy sweater with Sam in a backpack, and had already walked a brisk 10 minutes from the car dealership across the street -- I was making heat like one of those boil-water-in...

Published Wed, Dec 12 2008 12:36 PM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, forgiveness, baby backpack, honesty, childrens' accidents
How to be a grandpa someday

I came down the stairs with Sam still in his jammies. "Mommy?" he asked. "Yes, Mommy's here. And someone else is here too," I said. We came down the last flight, and there was Mommy, waiting. And there was Grandpa, waiting too...

Published Thu, Nov 11 2008 4:21 PM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, playtime, fatherhood, grandparents
Step-It Down, or is it Steppin' Down?

My wife was lying against the side of the bed, covering her face and giggling like mad. I was spooning her from behind, with my arm braced to protect her from above. My 14-year-old son was lying on the edge of the bed above us. Little Sam, almost two...

Published Tue, Oct 10 2008 4:44 PM by Brian David

Filed under: toddlers, made-up games, bathtime, children
"Baby cry!" he said

Sam weathered it OK when his mother left, just a droopy lip and a pathetic little "Mommy?" "She's just going to football," I said. "We'll see her soon." She was taking my stepson to a rival school district for a scrimmage...

Published Thu, Oct 10 2008 4:54 PM by Brian David

Filed under: temper, toddlers, tantrums, crying

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A constant reminder

Will this scar heal?

Perhaps believing makes magic real

Yes, Dear, I did drop the baby

How to be a grandpa someday

Step-It Down, or is it Steppin' Down?

"Baby cry!" he said