children

The One Where I Don’t Encourage my Son’s Dreams

July 5, 2009

A really tough part of parenting is figuring out how to deal with the gray areas. And there are MANY of them. Take the issue of encouraging your children to realize their dreams, for example. Sometimes, it’s just not helpful. Sometimes it really is more loving to be honest. To squelch the dream. To underscore [...]

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I had the best view

June 18, 2009

The kids pooped out way too early to see the SpectroMagic Parade at Disney World the first day, so we went later in the day the next time and stayed ’til the park closed. We foolishly thought 1/2 hour was plenty of time to spare for finding and securing good viewing positions for the parade. [...]

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