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Please protect my kid!
Like many parents of Kindergartners, we walked our daughter to school for her very first day. Unlike most of the parents around us, we were scared of the thousands of little interactions: the other students, the teachers, the staff. Anyone of them could kill her. And when we left her there, we weren’t confident that…
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The Postmodern Condition: Blame Must Be Shared
I watched a TED Talk a couple weeks ago that included a simple picture. The speaker began talking about distraction, because the picture, like the one I’ve provided below, demonstrated what he meant about distraction. The original picture was of a Dad at the park and he was playing with his smart phone while the…
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The Last Day
Yesterday was my wife’s last day of work and my last day as a Stay-At-Home-Dad (SAHD). This is a pretty big deal for us. I’ve written about the day itself here and posted a bunch of pictures as well. The biggest part of it is the changing of roles. The two of us have had…
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Parents: Crying It Out Is Not Best
As parents, we have all been there. There has never been a child that G-d has given us that hasn’t cried for what feels like a little too long or at seemingly just the wrong time. All parents have felt this stress. And every parent has lost it. I remember a specific instance in which…