Tag: kids
member name: Clay Nichols
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January 19, 2007 10:17 AM EST --
I desperately want my son to love books. He's a third grader now, and he can read independently, but he'd much rather be out on his new skateboard trying to fracture something. I don't . . .
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February 01, 2007 01:05 AM EST --
My mother-in-law is presiding over one of the most unique and touching raffles that I have ever seen. Spread out on a table in front of her are about fifty pieces of costume jewelry (necklaces, bracelets, . . .
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July 25, 2007 08:06 AM EDT --
Whenever my Youngest and his cousin, let's call him Jake, come into contact, you can almost hear the theme from "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" waft through the air. Their relationship . . .
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January 21, 2007 04:11 PM EST --
A recent trip to the toy store had me wondering: what the hell happened to dolls? The "fashion doll" aisle is dominated by the buxom "Barbie" and the even more tawdry, er, sassy . . .
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February 14, 2007 10:30 AM EST --
This week my daughter, ever the proud kindergartener, pulled from her backpack a pulpy red-bordered catalog that I recognized instantly. It was her first Scholastic Book Club catalog. Book . . .
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April 29, 2007 08:41 PM EDT --
Last week I rated an invitation to a birthday party that, for the first time in six years, didn't involve a piñata. I got a call from a friend that has done pretty well for himself inviting . . .
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September 25, 2007 10:14 AM EDT --
Serving alcohol at a kid's birthday party (to the adults, mostly)? An absolute requirement? A really bad idea? Both?
We're filming a segment on this topic in the DadLab Studio today. . . .
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March 27, 2007 11:43 PM EDT --
I don't know if this is a universal dad thing, but I am the family photographer. Period. In that role I have taken thousands of pictures of my wife and kids. There are shoeboxes stuffed . . .
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April 10, 2007 01:03 AM EDT --
A wedding and an Easter egg hunt this weekend had me thinking about kids and community.
Saying that we want our kids to have a healthy sense of community is easy because "community" is . . .
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February 04, 2007 12:43 PM EST --
A few thoughts about your children and the media on the eve of the Superbowl:
The American Academy of Pediatrics recently published a policy statement that you should probably read. It is entitled . . .
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June 03, 2007 10:05 AM EDT --
I have decided, after careful consideration, to resign my post as the Chief Creative Officer of DadLabs.com in order to spend more time with my family. It has been my pleasure to serve, but I feel . . .
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August 20, 2007 12:22 PM EDT --
Still recovering from the huge bash on Friday night. Man, those people have serious issues. I mean, by the time the movie got started, dudes were off the hook! See if I ever take the . . .
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July 09, 2008 08:56 AM EDT --
I was feeling a little nostalgic and drifting back through years of family summer vacation pictures, including those I have just recently taken. It struck me in this viewing that the children change . . .
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March 26, 2007 10:32 PM EDT --
I can say without hesitation that Babyproofing Your Marriage: How to Laugh More, Argue Less and Communicate Better as Your Family Grows by Stacie Cockerell, Cathy O'Neill and Julia Stone is the single . . .
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April 05, 2007 12:43 PM EDT --
For those of you in two-parent households with kids, do you divide equally the tasks of raising kids and running a household? Is yours more of a 60/40 marriage? 80/20? How do you split . . .
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May 09, 2007 12:31 AM EDT --
Mother’s Day. Give mom a card, breakfast in bed, handmade presents from the kids – all cute as a button. But let’s face it. This day just isn’t getting the job . . .
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June 05, 2007 11:49 PM EDT --
One of the sacred cows of parenting, one of those deeply held societal values that all us breeders share, is that children should do chores – required, independently and regularly performed household . . .
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January 30, 2008 12:26 PM EST --
Day one was marked by a clear sense of unease, a nervousness just beneath the surface. I first picked up on this when I began dinner preparations. Coop, who usually busies himself with . . .
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July 31, 2007 10:27 AM EDT --
According to mainstream media, parenting is a bit like trying to carry an enormous cardboard box with nothing but a cannon ball in it: minor shifts precipitate a sudden problem. At the moment, the . . .
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January 29, 2008 02:04 PM EST --
I took one look at the thing and sprained both ankles and fractured my tibia.
Because skateboards are not nearly unstable and dangerous enough, someone went ahead and invented the Ripstik . . .
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