After a long stretch without bumps and bruises, our one year old (actually 16 months) took a dive on the back patio yesterday afternoon and wound up with a pretty nasty looking boo-boo in the middle of his forehead. The only really surprising thing about this (aside from the fact that it hasn’t happened in [...]
Have you ever seen a four year old try to carry four Care Bears and a Teddy Bear up the stairs (all at once) when he’s tired? If not, you should. It’s pretty funny. And it takes awhile.
Raising4Boys participated in five carnivals this week. Here they are, along with links to our posts that were included in each… “Thank God for the Child Tax Credit” was featured in both the Carnival of Personal Finance (at PF Advice) and the Carnival of the Capitalists (at Pro Hip Hop Business). Also included in these [...]
According to a recent report out of the University of British Columbia, there may be a link between antibiotic exposure during the first year of life and the risk of developing asthma later in childhood. The study, which was based on a sample of 12,082 kids and 1,817 documented cases of asthma, suggested that the [...]
“Children need love, especially when they do not deserve it.” — Harold Hulbert
If your kids are anything like ours, then they love to play with LEGO. Unfortunately, if you stop by just about any toy store, you’ll find that LEGO prices are incredibly high (with a street value like that, they might as well sell ‘em by the kilo). This makes it virtually impossible to build a [...]
We did our taxes a couple of weeks ago and, once again, we ended up paying an astonishingly small amount… When all was said and done, we paid just 3.7% in net federal taxes (that’s our net tax divided by our adjusted gross income). While we had a number of deductions (mortgage interest, flexible spending [...]
Raising4Boys took part in four carnivals this week. Here they are, along with links to the posts that were included in each… Our piece on teaching kids about money was included in both the Carnival of the Capitalists and the Carnival of Personal Finance. Also included in these two carnivals were “Howard Stern is Underpaid” [...]
I’ll readily admit that I’m a gadgety kind of guy. If it’s fancy, new, and electronic, then I’m probably interested. That being said, even I didn’t get attraction of camera phones when they first came out, much less video phones. But when my last cell phone died, I replaced it with one that was capable [...]
“Television has changed the American child from an irresistable force to an immovable object.” — Laurence J. Peter
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