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  "I'm bored." No, not me. My kid. That's what he told me. He's bored. Keep in mind that his room is filled with a decent supply of toys. He's also stocked with an amazing collection of [...]

If people winked in real life as much as they do in text messages, the world would be a creepy place. I'm pretty sure we generally do this to keep things light in a rather heavy world. Other [...]

  About half of my vocabulary as an adult is derived from movie lines. In fact, about half of my friendships were forged while watching movies over and over together. (Anyone else willing to [...]

My 5-year-old daughter paced past me and proclaimed, "I need a drink." I nodded and replied under my breath (so only I could appreciate the punchline), "Been one of those days, hmm?" My wife and [...]

Please don't judge me. For two days, my wife and I walked around with one of our kids on a stretchy leash. You've probably seen these human fishing lures. I imagine one day it'll become how an [...]

You're familiar with the following stereotype, right? Parent: "Anything happen at school today?" Teenager: (Grunts something incoherent while texting friends on an overpriced smartphone) Parent: [...]

It's been said that R2D2 is the most vulgar movie character of all-time. After all, the director bleeped out every single word he said. (Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha...) Recently I took my oldest son [...]

This year my wife and I gave our 5-year-old daughter permission to fight back against any boy trying to overpower her. Her response? "YES!" Unfortunately, the first recipient of her ninja skills [...]

This article will self-destruct in 10 seconds. Well, not really - but ever notice how our kids can relationally "self-destruct" is less than 10 seconds based on how we handle social media with [...]

Firewalls. Smartphones. Snapchat. Seriously--our parents NEVER had to deal with this stuff. As if parenting wasn't hard enough, now we have to monitor sophisticated technology that frankly our [...]

Sometimes we experience what we consider to be a great moment in parenting. Have you had one recently? You might have felt it after designing the ultimate family getaway on a shoestring budget. [...]

It wasn’t my finest moment in parenting. My actions embarrassed my son and made him cry on his bike, right there in the middle of the street. All things considered, I thought he needed me to prod [...]