Somewhere around the week before Christmas, something clicked in Dash’s head. He’s been speaking in complete thoughts for almost a year now, but he was often just as likely to keep those thoughts to himself, at least if he was around people besides his parents. Suddenly at school he came out of his shell. Of [...]
Until this fall, I was someone who spent a lot of time at home with his kid. Now there is a whole other thing going on that’s outside my control and I’m sort of annoyed. It is hard enough keeping two parents on the same page, but once a school gets involved, there are simply [...]
I’ve been asked more than once to don a Santa suit since my college years and I’ve always managed to dodge that bullet. I’ve said no to pushy aunts, but somehow hearing the pre-K-to-3 teachers at Dash’s school tell me I was their last hope made this Grinch’s heart grow three times the size… Well [...]
I was doing an interview for the straight job a few days ago and my interview subject was jazz singer Tierney Sutton, who has a gig Dec. 10 at NJPAC. Anyway, I usually do pleasantries before getting down to business – I think it makes for a more enjoyable experience for the interviewer and interviewee, [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: kids love their schedules. We’ve gotten a not-so-gentle reminder about this when the time change happened. It’s one hour. No big deal, right? Wrong. While Dash usually wakes up closer to 7 am, he has been known to get up as early as 6. So this [...]
For some reason, traveling seems to be an ongoing theme for Dash and this blog. I think it might have something to do with the fact that time away brings clarity. Traveling together can be revelatory and lead to new bonds. And the same could be said for staying at home with him when mom [...]
My last entry was all about bitching about my son. Parents do this all the time, often to other family members, other parents (which can turn into an one-upmanship competition of “well my kid did this”), or just out loud to themselves (preferably out of earshot of your child). The other side of this bitching [...]
Parents have said to me that kids lose some of the cute and endearing quirks as they figure things out. I’ve always been a little puzzled by this sentiment. I mean, I don’t really think I’ll miss the 9 am meltdown that took place every day last winter, or the terrible twos or threes. This [...]
Kids collect things. At various times during my own childhood I collected old tennis balls, rocks, coins, beer cans, and stamps. This is to say nothing of the embarrassingly large number of CDs, LPs, and 7-inch singles that have threatened to overwhelm our living spaces over the years. Dash seems to have picked up this [...]
Well, the first week of school is behind us at this point. Some stuff completely caught me off guard while other things that I anticipated came true. But when all is said and done, I couldn’t have hoped for a better week. Things got off to a rough start on Monday, the first full day. [...]
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