This one has been a long time coming, but we’re seriously considering adding to our family. No, we’re not talking about another child. Rather, we’re considering getting a bearded dragon for our reptile-loving eight (soon to be nine) year old son. After a few years of lobbying (on his part) and stalling (on our part) [...]
The boys and I went swimming practically every day this past summer. We loved the pool at our new recreation club, but it had a few surprises. The first was a mandatory ten minute break every hour. It was for the life guards, and all kids had to leave the water. Sitting out of the [...]
Q: If you’re American outside of the bathroom, what are you when you’re inside the bathroom?
Raising4Boys took part in two Carnivals this week. Here they are, along with our posts that were included in each. The Best of Me Symphony included “Travel Tip: Book a ‘Nap’ Flight.” Also included was “Cell Phone Overages: A Hidden Cost of Moving” from fivecentnickel.com. The Carnival of the Vanities included “Travel Tip: Book a [...]
As many of you know, we’ve developed a fairly effective allowance system for our kids. Each week we sit down and pay our kids in proportion to their age ($0.50/week for each year of age), which gets split into charity (10%, which goes to the charity of their choice), long term savings (30%, which gets [...]
“The object of teaching a child is to enable him to get along without his teacher.” -Elbert Hubbard
This past month marked a pretty big rite of passage for our eight year old… He got his braces off! For those of you that aren’t keeping track, we initiated early orthodontic intervention last January to combat an increasingly worrisome underbite.
In the first couple of months that we lived in our new house, we received some mail intended for the previous owners. However, we managed to forward it to them and all was well. What’s truly amazing, however, is the plethora of catalog deliveries they handed down to us with no forwarding expected. Good gracious! [...]
Q: Why do monkeys have big noses?
Here’s a bit of information that you don’t want to hear until after your wife has her fourth Caesarean section… A recent study revealed that C-sections more than triple a woman’s risk of dying during childbirth as compared to a ‘normal’ (i.e., vaginal) delivery. I’ve actually written about this in the past with regard to [...]
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