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I love my kids. I really do. But sometimes I get tired of dealing with complaints of, "Daaaad, I'm bored!". I'm all for helping them out when I can, and I think there is value in them learning how to...
Getting Your Child to Practice Music: 20 Tips for Motivation
Remember the time your kid came home to tell you they wanted to learn an instrument? They were super excited and may have even begged you to let them try. You may have even had special conversations...
Lately, I've been having too much fun with Kool-Aid. Not only do I have fond nostalgia for these flavors from my childhood (especially blue raspberry lemonade), but using Kool-Aid simplifies much of...
My kids have gotten really into making paper airplanes lately. And in my lifelong quest to teach them new things, I’ve decided to show them a new way to make a paper airplane. This time with a...
Training wheels have been around forever. I know I had them when I was a kid (as did every other kid on the street), and I’m willing to bet most of you had them too. When it was time for my kids to...
Recently my oldest son and his friends have gotten super into dragons. They’ve been reading the Wings of Fire series by Tui T. Sutherland (a great read for your kids by the way), and now...
I love my kids and I love playing with my kids. I love it so much, I created this blog to find fun ways to spend more time with them. But there are some times that I need a break and that couch is...
The weekend is coming up and the wife is out of town. That means I’m on full time Dad Duty. One of the things I learned when I have a long period of time with two kiddos and no back up from...
It’s Saturday afternoon, it’s raining outside, and I desperately need to find something to do with my kids before they drive me nuts. I don’t feel like driving to the store, so it’s...
We live in a digital world. While I try to limit my kids' tech time, the truth is they will live their whole lives with technology that didn't exist for most of my life. My kids will need a level of...
I remember when households had only one computer that everyone had to share. Laptops weren't that common (and super expensive). The internet was a novelty and needed a dial-up connection with AOL. I...
It's family game night so you decide to take a trip to Target and check out the board game aisle. Except that aisle has so many new games you don't know what to pick. What about the games we all grew...
We've all been there. The kids are home from school and complain they're bored. While I'm all for coming up with ways to keep your kids busy (I made a whole website on the subject), this is also a...
A couple of years ago, I had the opportunity to spend a month with my family in Santa Fe, NM. We were traveling for my wife's work, and I had the summer "off" (I'm a college professor). I was...